Alleged victim accused of delusions

The lawyer for a north Cork doctor accused of sexually assaulting a teenager told a jury they were being asked to believe a woman who once thought she was pregnant with the baby Jesus by immaculate conception.

Defence SC Blaise O’Carroll said the woman was once so fixed in that view that she insisted on a pregnancy test.

Kevin Mulcahy, age 57, of Lombardstown, Mallow, Co Cork, pleaded not guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to charges of sexually assaulting the woman at his surgery when she was a patient aged 17/18. She is now in her mid-thirties.