Accused of raping his son's girlfriend
MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY AT CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
Wednesday March 10 2010
A WEXFORD woman has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that she was raped by her boyfriend's father after he gave them a lift home from the pub.
The then 18-year-old woman said she and her boyfriend accepted a lift home from the accused after a night's drinking. She said he dropped his son off first and was driving her home when he pulled into a laneway and raped her.
The 45-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to raping and sexually assaulting the woman on August 13, 2006 in County Wexford.
She told prosecuting counsel Gerald Clarke that she had been in a relationship with her boyfriend for several years and they had gone out to the local pub where they met some friends.
She said she had eight to ten vodka and cokes and was 'tipsy but not falling around the place.'
Her boyfriend had been drinking too and at the end of the night the accused offered them a lift home.
She got in the back seat with her boyfriend but asked if she could get into the passenger seat because it was easier to smoke a cigarette out of that window.
She got into front seat and the accused dropped her boyfriend off at his house. She said her boyfriend asked her to stay with him and she refused because she did not want to get into trouble with her family.
The accused drove towards her house but she said he continued past it and pulled the car in further down the road. She said he leaned to kiss her but she turned her head and asked him to take her home.
She said he told her he would take her home and drove off again. She said he then pulled into a lane and again started to try kiss her.
She said she tried to push him off and he said: 'Do you not want this?' She said she replied that she did not and that she loved his son.
She said she started crying and pleading with him to stop but he continued while saying, 'What's wrong? What's wrong?' She said he started to sexually assault her and asked her if she was "on the pill".
She said she lied to him that she was not 'on the pill' in the hope that he would stop but he continued regardless, calling her a 'foolish girl' for not carrying condoms with her. She said he then raped her and afterwards apologised, saying her boyfriend 'can probably do it better.'
She said he then drove her home and she ran straight into her sister's room and told her what happened. The gardaí were called and she was taken to hospital.
The trial continues before Mr Justice George Birmingham and a jury of eight men and four women.
