‘I worry I will never be able to trust intentions of men’

A French woman who decided to go for a walk along the bank of the Blackwater in north Cork encountered young men tending horses and was sexually assaulted by one of the men.

Patrick Tobin, aged 27, with an address at 8 Fanmore, Gould’s Hill, Mallow, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the young French visitor who decided to go for a walk along the river that Saturday afternoon.

Garda John Horgan said that when she went into a field, she saw some young men tending horses and asked them to identify the best path for a walk by the river.