THE MOTHER of a 21-year-old, who was allegedly raped, sexually assaulted and physically assaulted by her father over a 10-year period, was accused of “implanting her daughter’s memory”, the Central Criminal Court heard.
John Peart SC, defending, claimed on day three of the trial, that the mother of the complainant, helped make up the allegations in order to regain custody of her children to help her get out of debt. Denying the claims, the girl’s mother said her daughter first told her of the abuse in February 2006.
Mr Peart told her: “I don’t believe you. You discussed it with her and you had a motive for pursuing the allegations of sexual abuse against him.”
Denying the claims, the mother said she was not in debt at the time. But the court heard the daughter had told social workers in October 2005 that her mother was “seriously in debt”. The mother agreed with Mr Peart that she had not noticed the child crying when she came back into the house on the day her daughter claimed her father raped her anally for the first time when she was eight while her mother was outside.
She also agreed that when she had bathed the child she did not notice anything wrong with her.
The father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to 41 counts of anal rape, 41 counts of oral rape and 24 counts of sexual assault at various addresses on dates between July 1996 and March 2006.
He further pleaded not guilty to four counts of assaulting the girl by striking her with a knife, striking her with a hatchet, by burning a cigarette into her back, and kicking her on dates between August 2003 and April 2004.
The trial continues.