ALLEGED GALWAY RAPE VICTIM TESTIFIES SHE WAS SET UP

Date Published: 13-Nov-2008

A Galway woman has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that she felt the mother of her alleged rapist set her up for the assault in a neighbour's field in 1972 when she was 11-years-old.The 57-year-old accused denies indecently assaulting her by a lake in 1971, raping her in a field in 1972 and again at his marital home in 1979. The now 47-year-old Galway woman explained to the Central Criminal Court trial that her mother sent her to help with chores on the accused's family farm every Saturday and daily during school holidays from the age of ten.She said under cross-examination she didn't understand why the accused's mother asked her to help him remove cattle from a field because she had seen the field empty earlier that day.The hearing continues before Mr Justice Peter Charleton.