10-year-old girl’s note detailed alleged sexual assault

A 10-year-old girl with writing and speech difficulties handed her mother a note at bedtime in which she suggested she had been the victim of a sexual assault, it was claimed by her mother.

She also testified that her daughter used a teddy bear to demonstrate what allegedly happened.

A middle-aged man related to the girl was put on trial before Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin and a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.