No child could have 'made up' graphic detail of abuse, social worker tells High Court

No child could have “made up” the type of graphic detail provided in the case of a woman suing her father for allegedly abusing her, and facilitating neighbours to do the same, a social worker told the High Court.

The social worker, a member of a religious order, was giving evidence on the third day of an action before a judge and jury in which the woman, now in her 30s, says she was abused in her family home and in up to nine other houses in her area by her father, mother, and a number of others when she was aged between four and six in the mid-1980s.