Child ‘must have experimented on me’, suggests sex assault accused

The man accused of sexually assaulting the 10-year-old daughter of his then girlfriend, who had semen found on her hand, said his only explanation was that the child must have “experimented” on him as he slept.

This suggestion was included in the memo of an interview of the accused with gardaí, which was read to the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on the second day of a trial yesterday.

The accused said in the witness box that was the only explanation he could come up with when he thought about it afterwards. He also said that he might have ejaculated some sperm onto a sheet when fondling with his girlfriend and that the child might have touched the sheet and got sperm on her hand in that way.