Woman who was sexually abused as child attacked by stranger in Cork city

The young woman hoped that by making a complaint to gardaí it might help to prevent 'another girl being sexually assaulted'.

A young Cork woman who spent a lot of her life trying to come to terms with being sexually abused as a child was attacked again as an adult — this time by a stranger who followed her as she walked home last December.

Within a week of the sexual attack on her on December 3, 2021, she attempted to take her own life, the young woman said in a victim impact statement read on her behalf by Detective Garda Kevin Hastings who investigated the case.