Cork trial of two boys accused of raping girl hears recorded garda interview with complainant
The recording was played at the Central Criminal Court in Cork before a jury of nine women and three men.
The jury in the trial of a thirteen-year-old boy and a fifteen-year-old boy accused of raping a 16-year-old girl at a Christmas race meeting today heard an official garda recording of a specialist interview with the girl from shortly after the alleged incident.
This was played at the Central Criminal Court and a further part of it will be played for the jury tomorrow. Mr Justice Paul McDermott sent the nine women and three men home for the evening with a warning: “In the meantime, don’t Google.”
The two defendants — now aged 15 and 17 — are both charged with raping and sexually assaulting the teenager at a St Stephen’s Day race meeting at Limerick racecourse. A third boy is accused of aiding and abetting the first two defendants in carrying out these offences and he is also charged with falsely imprisoning the girl.
It is alleged that the contested incidents occurred in a car in a field car park at Limerick racecourse at Patrickswell, Co Limerick, on December 26, 2023.
All three accused have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
In the recorded interview, the complainant said while inside a parked car at the races that afternoon, one teenager put her hand on his private parts, and told her to give him a “hand job”.
“Two other boys got into the car. I don’t remember what I was feeling. I was too out of it. I was too drunk. Then his friend got in the back and he took down his pants and said, 'go on, do it for me. Like, do the same for me like you are doing for him'.
“I don’t remember if I did anything to the second guy. A lot of stuff was happening. I was in and out.
“I had a dress and they took it down. The two guys were doing it. I was like, 'I should go back to my friends'. They were like, 'no, you’re fine, stay here'.
“The guy on my right took my underwear off and said we would have sex. I said I was having my period and he said, 'no, you’re fine'.
“They pulled my top down and then they started to pull my skirt up.
“He started having sex with me. He was just saying, 'no, you’re fine'. He did that for a bit. He went outside the car. He was done and he left. Then his friend hopped into the back and did the same thing.
“He just did it. I said I am on my period there … He said, 'you’re fine, you’re not'. He pulled out and finished on my hand.
“(Later with her friends) I was crying. I was upset over what happened. I was not making much sense. I said I was after having sex with (surname),” she said.
When the specialist interviewer asked how she knew the surname she said of one of the boys: “He had my phone. One of the guys added his user name to my phone. I remember seeing (surname).”
The trial continues at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.
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