‘I can no longer live on my own’

A woman with intellectual disabilities has told a court that she is no longer able to live on her own after a violent sexual assault in her home.

Her attacker, a Kerry native with no previous convictions, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court last November to aggravated sexual assault of the then 58-year-old woman at a location in Kerry on July 29, 2011.

The attack left her with bruising and abrasions to her shoulder, chest, knees, ankle, her back right arm, and buttock, and with carpet burns on her back.