Boy ‘tied up before rape by own father’

A MAN accusing his father of raping him from the age of five onwards yesterday told Cork Circuit Criminal Court that his grandfather would tie him up before the attacks took place.

His grandfather would also rape him, but the complainant said he had left this out of his direct evidence as “it is not fair to bring him into it, as he is deceased”.

The attacks took place from 1982 to 1990, ending when the complainant was 12 years old.