A Clare teenager told a jury in the Central Criminal Court that her father made her bring her friend to sex sessions with him. The 18-year-old girl was giving evidence yesterday on the first day of the trial of her 48-year-old father.
He originally faced 102 charges of indecent assault, sex assault, incest, rape and one of anal rape. Before the case opened he pleaded guilty to 14 counts of sexual assault. The trial proceeded on 48 counts of rape and incest involving his daughter and her friend.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and incest involving his daughter from January 1992 to September 1996. He also denies the rape of her friend on dates from January 1992 to March 1996.
Prosecution counsel, Mr Michael Durack, told Mr Justice Smith and the jury of six men and six women that the accused was saying: "I did do various acts amounting to sexual assault but I did not have sexual intercourse with either girl."
His daughter claimed he had been abusing her over a number of years. He told her one day to get her friend to come along and he made them wait for him in a wood. He arrived later from the pub and got them to perform a sexual act on him. He gave them cigarettes and money as payment.
When she got a job he insisted she have sex with him before leaving in the morning. "Sometimes he might touch me in the morning, the evening, or during the day, whatever time was quiet, like," she said.
She told Mr Durack that her father sexually abused her and had intercourse with her in a number of locations, including their house, in a shed, in an unoccupied building and in a wood. He also had sexual intercourse with her friend.
When her mother was in hospital after giving birth to a baby, he made her sleep in his bed and have sex every night. When her mother returned, things returned to normal with her father sneaking about to have meetings with her, she said.
She said he used to have sex with her a couple of times a week. It went on until the age of 14 when she told and she was "put away" in a foster home.
She said she used to be visited by her father and mother in Clare Care and he would urge her to move back with the family. He told her he would not touch her again if she did, and she agreed to return because she did not have any friends in care.
She moved home and everything was all right for a couple of weeks. However, he then started to have sex with her on a regular basis.
On one occasion she rescued a puppy and her father told her she could keep it if she agreed to anal sex. He assured her it would not hurt but she screamed when it started. He covered her mouth for the five minutes until he finished.
She ran away in 1996 and gardai found her sleeping in a wheelbarrow in a shed. She was not prepared to go home and the investigation was initiated.
The trial continues.