Trial witness breaks down describing alleged rape

The witness was the first to give evidence in the trial of a 59-year-old man accused of offences against eight young boys including sexual assault and rape. The man has pleaded not guilty.

The man broke down in tears in the witness box as he described three occasions where he alleged he was sexually abused in the defendant’s home. The man said he lived nearby and played in the area because many of his friends lived there. He said he had been in the accused man’s house a number of times, and said the man’s wife was friendly with his mother at the time.

Ms Lacey put it to him that it was a busy house with a number of children, and was quite a small house. Ms Lacey said her client denies all of the allegations and says none of this happened and"anything you have said is untrue and that these are lies". The witness said he went to see a counsellor in 2011 after he had returned from abroad, and after he had told his wife of the alleged assaults. Asked why he did not tell the gardaí at that stage, he said:"I just didn’t tell them".

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