‘I wanted to go home but he wouldn’t let me,’ rape trial hears

A rape trial jury has heard evidence from a special needs woman that a man brought her back to his house and had sex with her after she became separated from her mother.

The accused claims he had sexual contact with the woman, who is in her 20s, but that he did not know she was mentally impaired.

The man has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape, sexual assault, and having sex with a mentally impaired person at his Dublin home on June 12, 2013.