GP: I was suicidal after sex assault claim

A North Cork doctor said the allegation of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old patient by fondling her breasts hit him like a train and he became suicidal.

“I have never seen this patient as far as I am concerned and none of this happened as far as I am concerned,” Kevin Mulcahy, aged 56, of Cregane, Lombardstown, Mallow, Co Cork, testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

The doctor is on trial on a single count of indecently assaulting the girl at his surgery on Strand St, Kanturk, Co Cork, on a date unknown between September 1, 1989, and June 22, 1990.