Mother put girl into father's bed, jury hears in abuse case

The mother of a Dublin teenager who alleges she was sexually abused by her father for over ten years has told of putting her daughter into her husband's bed on New Year's Day 2006 because she was drunk.

The woman told prosecuting counsel, Mr Paul Coffey SC (with Mr Michael Bowman BL), she was afraid the girl would fall out of her bunk bed as a result of being intoxicated following the family celebration. Which ended at about 5.00 am on New Year's Day. She said she slept in her daughter's bed.