Cork girl alleges sex assault by mum’s boyfriend

A 10-year-old girl claimed that her mother’s boyfriend sexually assaulted her and said he would make her a beautiful woman and buy her nice presents for Christmas.

A jury of eight men and four women was sworn in yesterday to hear the case against the man accused of sexually exploiting and sexually assaulting his then girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter. The accused, who is in his mid-30s, pleaded not guilty to the two charges on the indictment against him at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Siobhán Lankford, prosecuting, gave the jury an outline of the anticipated evidence and said both charges arose out of the one alleged incident at a house in Co Cork on November 10, 2013. The complainant is now 13.