Homeless Cork woman allegedly sexually abused by father told she can live with parents

The woman had not taken out a domestic violence order against her father and there was no conviction against him.

A Cork woman was told she did not qualify for emergency accommodation because she could live with her parents — even though she had left her family home several years earlier because her father had allegedly sexually abused her.

The woman became homeless for six months last year when she had to leave the property she was renting under the room-for-rent scheme for the previous seven years.