Hundreds of women complain of marital rape

MARITAL rape was disclosed by 512 women who sought help in relation to domestic violence last year.

“This is in a climate where currently not one conviction on marital rape stands,” the Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) said yesterday.

Marital rape was recognised as a crime in 1990, but RCNI noted the first and only jury conviction in Ireland - in 1999 - had been appealed lately.