‘Year of hell’ for country music singers cleared of rape

Three brothers, including two musicians, were found not guilty

Aidan Taaffe

John Toner

THREE brothers – two of them popular country music singers – charged with raping a young woman more than a dozen times have been acquitted on all charges against them.

Musicians Aidan Taaffe and ‘Cowboy’ Larry Taaffe, along with third brother Michael Taaffe, were all accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman on numerous occasions in the late 1970s and early 1980s.