Man accused of raping son’s teenage girlfriend
The man told his counsel, Paddy McCarthy SC, that the complainant had put her hand on his thigh as he drove to her house to drop her off and had agreed to go somewhere else to “talk”.
He said he drove to a nearby spot where she leaned in and kissed him, but he then moved the car to a lane so they would be off the road.
He said the complainant adjusted her position closer to him as she lay in the front passenger seat so they could have sex.
The accused, in his 40s, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of rape and one count of sex assault in his car on August 13, 2006.
He denied lifting the girl up at any point, kneeling on her stomach, pinning her down or pulling her face; or that she had kicked or boxed him. He further denied the complainant had been crying or screaming.
He told Mr McCarthy that the car doors had been unlocked the whole time and that he had asked the complainant if she was ok on several occasions because it had never been his intention to have sex with her.
The accused said he regretted having sex with her because it was amoral and that he drove the complainant home after sex.
He said he and the complainant kissed when she was about to get out of the car. He denied causing any marks to her legs or arms and said everything that had happened between them had been consensual.
He told Mr McCarthy, with Colman Cody BL, that he “wouldn’t have said she was drunk”, when asked about the complainant’s sobriety on the night.
He denied when Gerry Clarke SC, prosecuting, put it to him that he didn’t mention oral sex in his voluntary statement to gardaí because he had thought the complainant “was drunk on the night and wouldn’t have had a clear recollection of what happened”.
He denied that the reason he drove to a lane was because he knew he wouldn’t be disturbed while raping the complainant.
The trial continues.
