Accused denies two counts of raping girl, 13, in toilet

A 13-YEAR-OLD girl who claimed she was raped by a 21-year-old man texted him afterwards not to tell anyone and she said he texted back: “Nobody needs to know. We can still meet up. Ha.”

That was the evidence given by the girl, now 17, who testified in a trial at the Central Criminal Court in Cork that she was raped twice in the toilet of a flat when she was aged 13 on a Saturday afternoon in May 2008. A 24-year-old man, who was 21 at the time of the alleged incident, denies two counts of raping her.

The teenager testified that, after the alleged incident: “I was told by someone who raped me not to say nothing. I was bawling crying. [The accused] smiled at me and I ran into a bedroom. When something like that happens you feel hurt, you feel violated, you want to curl up in a ball. I was shocked, I had a threat put on me that night.”