Man, 25, forced girl, 6, into oral sex for toy
Sergeant Aidan Moynihan said yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that the incident occurred on an afternoon in the early 1980s.
The girl asked the defendant, whom she knew, to get her a toy skipping rope. He said he would do so but he produced his penis and told her to put it in her mouth if she wanted him to get her the skipping rope. She did so.
It was not until the injured party was 19 that she felt she could tell an aunt what happened and it was some further time before she told her mother. Sgt Moynihan said she was in counselling from 1995 until 2012, the year she eventually went to her local garda station and made a complaint of indecent assault.
The injured party, who did not refer to herself as a victim, said she did not want any of the parties identified and did not want the accused to be jailed. She wanted her victim impact report read privately by the judge and not in public.
Judge Donagh McDonagh said it was important that the effect that such a crime had on a child, not just in their childhood but throughout their adult life, was known.
Brian McInerney, defending, said the accused now suffered serious ill health.
“He is deeply ashamed of his actions,” he said. “He has had to live with this in the back of his mind. He accepts there is a certain degree of fate seeking to even the scales in terms of injuries which have befallen him.”
Mr McInerney said he was flabbergasted by the extraordinary Christian attitude taken by the complainant.
“One could understand feelings of revenge or vengeance but she fails to see how it would achieve anything other than letting a sick man die in prison,” he said.
He quoted the complainant asking what justice there would be in jailing the defendant at this stage.
Judge McDonagh said he was adjourning sentence until February 19, and remanding the accused in custody until then.
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