The investigating sergeant told Maurice Coffey SC prosecuting that the woman woke up to find the man digitally penetrating her vagina and anus. She pretended to be asleep and then pretended to wake up and the man moved away from her. The woman then fell asleep again but woke to find the man having sex with her. The 27-year-old man Wexford man had initially faced a charge of rape but he later pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to three charges of sexual assault at his then Dublin home on May 7, 2018. The man was interviewed by gardaí in July 2019, during which he claimed that the sex between them had been consensual.

Source: Irish Independent July 05, 2023 17:49 UTC