A man accused of shattering the skull of his girlfriend's infant daughter has been found guilty by a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
The 26-year-old defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of assault causing serious harm to the child on New Year's Eve 2016.
He was also found guilty of the willful neglect of the infant and the infant's two-year-old sister on dates in December 2016.
The jury of five women and seven men took an hour and 23 minutes to return their unanimous guilty verdicts in the case.
Judge Sean Ó Donnabhain remanded the accused in custody for sentencing on 22 February next to allow for the preparation of a victim impact statement.
Judge Ó Donnabhain also expressed concern about the defendant's apparent detachment during the case but did not request a psychiatric report.
Defence barrister Brendan Kelly said he would take instructions from his client on whether or not to seek such a report.
During the course of the week-long trial, the infant's mother testified that she had returned home that afternoon to see her ex-partner holding the infant and said her "head was deformed on a huge scale".
She wept as she told the court that her nine-month-old baby was visibly injured.
The woman said her relationship with the father of the two children had ended and she began a relationship with the defendant who would make comments about the two children, stating that they had a likeness to their father.
The court was told that the infant was admitted to hospital by ambulance that evening with up to ten fractures including a severely fractured skull.
The defendant had denied the offences.
