No new investigation into woman's sex abuse complaint in 2010, High Court hears

Gardaí did not carry out a new investigation when a woman suing her father, for allegedly sexually abusing her as a child and facilitating neighbours to do the same, made a complaint as an adult in 2010, the High Court has heard.

In 1988, two years after the woman, her sister and mother left the family home for a refuge, a file was sent to the DPP on foot of a garda and health board investigation of the original abuse allegations. The DPP did not recommend prosecution because the child, who was between four and six when the abuse allegedly occurred, was too young to give evidence, the court heard.