Two boys took part in gang rape, court told

A 15-year-old boy was among a gang of three teens accused of raping a woman in a van three years ago.

Two boys took part in gang rape, court told

The accused were aged 15, 16, and 18 at the time of the alleged gang rape. The alleged victim was aged 31.

The men, who cannot be named, have pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to four charges, namely the rape, oral rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault of a woman at an unknown location in Cork on Sept 13, 2009. They are now aged 19, 19 and 21.

One of the men has pleaded guilty to stealing the woman’s car from outside her home on the night.

Opening the trial, Patrick McCarthy, prosecuting, told the jury it was the State’s case that the three accused were involved in a prior agreement to take part in a criminal enterprise.

He said they would hear evidence that the men were driving in a white van with a mattress in the back at 3am when they met the alleged victim and that they picked her up and drove her to a more remote location where she was raped, sexually assaulted, and assaulted.

The woman told the court she heard one man shout “hi-dee-ho” during the alleged attack. She said there was a woman in the van, “watching everything” and egging the men on.

The woman told Mr McCarthy she had been out with friends and could not remember how she ended up in the back of a van with four strangers.

She said there was one teen sitting beside her and they stopped after driving for about 10 minutes. She said other teenagers then got into the back and she became scared and realised she was outnumbered.

She said the four people had “Traveller accents”. She said one man stood in front of her and was slapping his penis around her face. She said she was very drunk and scared. She said she gave in and he raped her orally.

This man went away and another one came and pushed her down and lay on top of her, she alleged. She said he thought he was having sex with her but he did not penetrate her.

She said between these two attacks the other woman took her own underwear off and rubbed herself against the alleged victim.

She said at one stage, the men went through her handbag and found her keys and became interested in her car and asked her for her address. She said she did not know where she was so she told the men her address so they would drive her home.

She described this as making a “pact with the devil”.

She said she tried to get them to drop her off before her house so that they wouldn’t know which house was hers. She said they wanted her car so they stopped right at her house.

She denied a suggestion from Timothy O’Leary, defending, that she had consensual sex with one of the men. “I had been fighting him off; I think that pretty much says ‘no’. I remember pushing him away. I remember telling someone to get away from me. I said ‘no’ at some stage.”

The trial continues.

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