Uncle threatened to kill me if I told of assault, girl tells court

A girl aged 10 who said she was sexually assaulted by her uncle in Kerry said much later that he threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

This evidence was put before Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin and a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

The middle-aged man who is on trial pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexually assaulting her on occasions between April 2011 and September 2014 at his home in Kerry.