Rape injuries heal within days, expert tells court

A consultant paediatrician has told a Central Criminal Court rape trial jury that genital injuries to a child from sexual abuse could heal within days and not leave any residual findings.

The 73-year-old accused man has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting and raping two daughters between the ages of four and 11 and sexually assaulting his son from the age of three to six at various locations between 1995 and 2002.