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A YOUNG GIRL who claims that she was raped on Halloween when she was 12 by her slightly older cousin accepted today that she had previously filed a rape complaint against another young man, but had withdrawn it.
The main defense counsel, Siobhán Lankford, questioned the author today in the rape trial in connection with the other complaint.
“In October 2017, he filed a complaint against another young man, a rape charge,” said Lankford SC. The witness replied: “Yes.”
Ms. Lankford said: “This allegation was investigated, statements were taken, a search warrant was issued, and after a full investigation, did you withdraw that complaint and never proceed with it?” The complainant said: “Yes.”
The lead attorney for the prosecution, Tom Creed, asked the young woman why she had withdrawn the other rape complaint against the second young man and she replied: “I felt I could not continue with two cases.”
Creed said the defense attorney, Ms. Lankford, was suggesting that she was making up the complaint in the present case.
She replied, “I didn’t make it up. Occurred. I wish I was making it up. “
The applicant agreed with Ms Lankford that it was difficult in her teens. Ms. Lankford SC said: “Her family was concerned about her veracity. Did your family think that you could be telling lies about things in general? “The witness replied:” Possibly. “
In connection with the present case before Judge Eileen Creedon and a jury of eight men and four women in the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork, Ms. Lankford said that the first time the plaintiff claimed that she was raped by the defendant was in a transition. ball of the year. Ms. Lankford said, “I suggest to you that after the TY ball you were on a path that you couldn’t get back from and you had to go this way; you couldn’t lose your face, you had to keep going.”
The author replied: “No.”
Ms. Lankford said there were inconsistencies in the way some allegations are described, and the time periods associated with them, between statements made to a guidance teacher, counselors and the evidence presented in court today.
At the beginning of the case on Monday, lead prosecution attorney Tom Creed said the plaintiff was alleged to be 12 years old when she went trick or treating with her 13-year-old cousin on Halloween 2011. Creed said it was alleged that, “Up in the bathroom there was a penetration of his anus by his penis “. The prosecution’s lead attorney said the second count in the four-count indictment allegedly occurred the following October 2012, again on Halloween night, and that a similar alleged crime occurred.
Mr. Creed said that on subsequent occasions, prior to June 2014, it is alleged that there was rape by penetration of the complainant’s vagina with the accused’s penis and finally an act of oral rape at a time when the complainant was 15 years old. .
The defendant, who is now 22 years old, has pleaded not guilty to all four charges.
He denied having had sexual relations with the complainant at a time when she did not consent or when he was reckless as to whether or not she consented. She also denied two counts of sexual assault for penetrating her anus with her penis and one count of sexual assault for penetrating her mouth with her penis. The charges correspond to a period between October 2011 and June 2014.
The trial continues.
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