A 40-year-old Iraqi man resident in Cospicua has been jailed for three years after he admitted in court to having defiled a 12-year-old girl.

The police said the crimes were committed in Cospicua between 2007 and 2009.

The man had been assigned responsibility to take care of the child.

Police Inspector Graziella Muscat prosecuted.

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