A woman has told the Central Criminal Court she was 16 years old when her mother's partner raped her after she returned home in the early hours from a disco.
The now 21-year-old woman agreed that her mother was still living with the accused.
The 37-year-old accused man has pleaded not guilty to one count of oral rape in 1998, one of rape in 2001, and nine charges of indecent assault from 1993 to 1998.
The complainant told Deirdre Murphy SC, prosecuting, that the accused abused her when her mother went out. Her mother would go out at least once a week.
She said the accused would say he was sorry after each assault, and tell her she should not let him do it. She felt like "the evil one", but could not try to stop him because she was only a child at the time. She was 13 and felt afraid of the accused.
The woman recalled another night when her mother was away.
When she was 16 the accused gave her permission to go with a male cousin and an aunt to a disco. He allowed her out on condition that she did not tell her mother and was home at a certain time.
The accused was in the house when she got back, and she went to bed and he raped her. She said nothing happened between them after that night other than the accused trying to kiss her.
She had never consented to the behaviour she described. Sometimes he bought her things "obviously to keep my mouth shut".
Cross-examined by Martin Giblin SC, defending, she agreed her mother was still living with the accused.
She also agreed she made allegations against other men, including a cousin who she said put his hand on her body under a duvet. He would sometimes sleep in the same room as her. She was not aware that he was then upset by her claim and still was.
Told by Mr Giblin that an older man against whom she had made an allegation would give evidence to the contrary, she replied: "He [ accused] probably has paid him to say that."
She could not remember if it was dark or what the weather was like on the first occasion she claims the accused sexually abused her. She did not remember how long after she came in from school it happened
She did not remember being upset while outside or telling the court at a previous hearing into this matter on May 4th that she cried when she left the house.
She agreed with Mr Giblin that she had a memory of crying when she said that last May, but in reply to counsel's question where "that memory" was now gone, she replied: "I don't know where my mind is gone."
She denied that contradictions between her statement to gardaí and her evidence at the May hearing and at this trial were because the assault never happened. "I'm all over the place today. What I told you today is what I remember."
The hearing continues.