Alleged rape victim: SF are putting me through trauma

A woman who claims the IRA tried to force her to keep quiet about a rape allegation against a west Belfast member of the republican group said she is being "put through further trauma today" by Sinn Féin.

Maria Cahill, who claims she was attacked and sexually abused over the course of a year in 1997 when she was 16, said it was “quite disgusting” how Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams denied her account of meetings she had with him.

She claims she was subject to a “kangaroo court” investigation into the allegations, when she was just 18, and that the IRA forced her to confront her attacker.