A MILDLY mentally handicapped woman told a jury she was woken up from a drunken sleep by her girlfriend's fiance raping her.
She told Criminal Court she "clattered the head of him" to get him to stop and also claimed she heard the sound of a video camera in the accused man's bedroom in a Dublin suburb. Later, he bought her a box of chocolates because she claimed he was "feeling guilty".
The woman denied in cross examination that she consented and came downstairs in the man's house laughing with him afterwards.
The 26 year old Dublin woman agreed she did not say anything to her parents until her mother discovered a "prescription" from the Rotunda Hospital Sexual Assault Unit in her purse a week later.
She told Mr Barry White SC defending, she could not remember telling another court four years ago she had returned to the defendant's house the day before her mother found the note with the intention of telling him she was going to gardai.
She denied she told the defendant and her girlfriend on that alleged second visit that her father had beaten her or that she said she had tried to commit suicide.
When Mr White read to her from a court transcript a list of questions by counsel and by a judge, and her replies to them, she said she could not remember making those replies and that they were untrue.
Mrs Justice McGuinness and a jury of seven women and five men heard a doctor say that when she came for examination several days later the woman was "quite adamant" she did not want to complain to gardai.
Dr Meda O'Callaghan Lehane said the woman told her she had not come earlier for examination because she was celebrating her birthday during the weekend after the alleged rape.
A 32 year old man has pleaded not guilty to raping and sexually assaulting the woman in his home on May 17th, 1991.
The woman told Mr Denis Vaughan Buckley SC, prosecuting, she had gone to the man's house with her then girlfriend to have some drinks and watch television. She drank about three cans of Ritz too fast and became drunk.
When the defendant showed her and her girlfriend around the house, she lay on his bed and fell asleep. She woke feeling "being hurt" and found the defendant raping her.
Cross examined by Mr White, the woman agreed she had been attending a psychiatrist at the time of the alleged rape. She had been getting regular injections for manic depression but denied she had failed to attend for them for some weeks before May 17th, 1991.
Mr White read part of a medical report which noted that without the injections the woman could be "disinhibited, amorous, unco operative and lacking in judgment".
The hearing continues.