Garrett McCormack BL, prosecuting, told Dublin’s Circuit Criminal Court that it is the State’s case that there was also sexual contact between the boy and the accused on a holiday she attended with his family. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish TimesA former teacher at a Dublin secondary school has gone on trial charged with indecently assaulting a pupil in 1985.
‘I’m frightened of spending retirement with my husband, I’m not sure he is someone I would choose again’ The accused stayed in a separate apartment, but the complainant says two incidents of a sexual nature occurred over the course of the holiday, once in a swimming pool and again at her apartment. The complainant described how he was “infatuated with her” and how he thought he was “in love.” However, he says the incidents started “eating away at me” as time went on.
He says seeing his own children at the age he was at the time of the alleged incidents along with other, unrelated high-profile cases “spurred me on to go to the guards.” He said he remembers the accused telling him a Brian Sherry album made her “horny.” He also said she would tell him “what she would get up to sexually.”The complaint described how the accused “praised me for my creative essays” and “recommended books for me to read.” He says at one point the defendant produced an essay for him, and that she gave him exam papers in advance before the end-of-year exams.