Vulnerable woman taken from traveller camp in drugged state

A vulnerable intellectually disabled young woman whose mental age is about ten was removed by gardai in a filthy, distressed and apparently drugged state from a traveller camp several days after leaving a private care facility, the High Court has heard.

A young man said in evidence he had consensual sex with the woman, whom he knew from the past, had not raped or harmed her and is in love with her. He has a number of psychiatric conditions, he also said.