Boy needed specialist care for sexualised behaviour

A young boy who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother left his second foster home because his foster mother felt he needed more specialist care for his sexualised behaviour.

“We knew he had to go somewhere to get extensive therapy where he could get the help he needed so he could have some chance of a future,” the woman said. She was giving evidence on day 12 of the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

She and her husband did not want the child to leave nor did he want to leave them but she said they all realised it was necessary.

The boy’s parents face 82 charges of abuse between 2007 and 2011 in Waterford.

The child’s second foster mother told Pauline Walley, prosecuting, that on one occasion the then eight-year-old complainant brought a few younger children down to his bedroom.

He said he was playing hotel before he pulled the blinds and asked to see the children’s private parts. The woman said the child was never allowed to be alone with younger children again.

She said one time she and the boy were mess fighting on the couch and she accidentally kicked the boy in his private area. He became very upset and aggressively told her that if she ever touched him there again he would “put his willy up my arse”. He then laughed.

The boy then told his foster mother that his father had “shoved his willy up my bum”.