Boy told social worker abuse allegations ‘weren’t real’

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to “have sex” with his mother told a social worker that the allegations “weren’t real”, a trial has heard.

However the now 12-year- old boy told the trial yesterday that the abuse did happen and he said it didn’t because he didn’t want to come to court.

On Tuesday the boy alleged his father had raped him, sexually abused him with a hot poker and forced him to have sex with his mother in their Waterford home. The man is also alleged to have held a gun to the child’s head.