Cork sexual assault victim tells attacker: 'The truth always trumps lies'

The injured party said today she was glad she made the complaint against 50-year-old Francis Sweeney for sexually assaulting her in a tent in Cork city two years ago and that it might save some other woman a similar ordeal at Sweeney’s hands. File picture: iStock

A homeless young woman told the man who sexually assaulted her that even though she was addicted to heroin and living in a tent that did not give anyone the right to touch her without her permission.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin commended the professionalism of two gardaí – Michael Nagles and Michelle Quinn – in investigating the matter and never walking away from the victim despite her initial reluctance to make a complaint.