A 22-year-old woman has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court her uncle by marriage raped her when she was 10 years old and told her it was "to punish" her for a family death.
The accused, a 46-year-old Co Offaly farmer, denies two charges of raping the girl and five charges of indecently assaulting her on dates from 1987 to 1989.
The alleged victim told the jury of eight men and four women she was a frequent visitor to the accused's home. He tried to kiss her in a shed when she was nine, and some time later, after a family death, he told her it was her fault and he was going to punish her for it.
She told prosecuting counsel Mr Gerard Clarke SC she was in bed alone one morning in his house after her 10th birthday when he came in, got into the bed and raped her.
He then reminded her of his "punishment" warning and said he had now done it. She told Mr Clarke he raped her again about a year later when again she was in the bed in his house on her own.
The jury has also heard the alleged victim claimed to a friend she had seen the accused man interfere sexually with his own daughter who was sleeping in the same room as her.
The woman told Mr Clarke she was nine years old when the accused took her out into the shed the first time and tried to kiss her.
She said that on other occasions in the shed he put his hand under her top to feel her chest and would insert his finger into her. He would also put her hand on his genital area. She stopped staying over in his house from 1989 onwards because she was afraid. He had also stopped being friendly and had become cold to her.
She would only visit with her family. She said the last time she visited the accused's home was in 1990. She became very depressed and withdrawn and stayed in a lot.
She complained to the Garda in 1996. Cross-examined by defence counsel Mr Barry White SC she agreed she was "not great" on dates. She could not remember where her aunt was on the day she alleged the accused first abused her but one of her cousins was in the kitchen washing dishes. She further agreed she had never undergone a medical examination in relation to her claims.
A former school friend said the alleged victim told her she had been raped by the accused in a shed on his farm on the day of a family funeral.
The alleged victim told her on the next occasion they spoke that she had seen the accused touch his own daughter in the bedroom she was sharing in his house. Witness said she phoned "Childline" for advice and was told she should go straight to the alleged victim's parents and tell them.
She asked her friend's mother to come up to her because she had "something important" to tell her but the alleged victim wouldn't talk to her mother about her claims.
The hearing continues before Mr Justice Paul Carney.