Stepfather denies sexually assaulting girl 15 times

A teenager testified in a trial yesterday that her stepfather — a youthclub supervisor — started sexually assaulting her from the age of eight and told her after the first alleged incident, "that’s a good girl".

A jury was sworn in to hear the case before Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where the accused pleaded not guilty to 15 charges of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter.

Now aged 18, she claimed it started when she was eight, on a day when she was playing with her little brother who left the room when the accused came in.