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A MAN who has accused a married farmer of raping him in his home after a night out was also allegedly raped by a male relative and another man when he was a child, a court heard.
The complainant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Gardaí he was tied up and injected with animal hormones before being raped by his now deceased relative, the Central Criminal Court heard.
A retired Garda witness, under cross examination by the accused’s barrister, senior counsel Mark Nicholas, agreed that, as well as making an allegation in respect of the accused, the complainant also claimed he had been raped on numerous occasions between 1974 and 1985 by two men, including his deceased relative, which did not involve the accused.
The Garda agreed with Mr Nicholas that the alleged victim claimed “they tied him up and injected certain things into him, including cattle hormones”.
The complainant has claimed he was anally raped by the accused in 2011 and in 2019 in County Limerick.
Senior prosecuting counsel Fionnuala O’Sullivan told the court the complainant initially made a disclosure about the alleged rape by the accused during an appointment with his GP in April 2019.
Ms O’Sullivan said the complainant claimed that on January 6, 2011, the accused told him he couldn’t have sex with his own wife and then raped him.
Ms O’Sullivan said the complainant “told the accused ‘No’, and that he didn’t want to do it”.
The prosecuting barrister told the jury they would hear evidence of the complainant’s “intellectual capacity”.
The complainant has alleged the accused anally raped him again between April 7 and April 8, 2019.
Ms O’Sullivan said that, during interviews with investigating Gardaí, the accused “accepted that some sexual activity had occurred” between him and the complainant, but “denied rape”.
A DVD recording of an interview between the complainant and Gardaí in May 2019 was played in court, in which the complainant said that he and the accused went shopping and had a meal on the evening of April 7, 2019.
Later that night, after the accused dropped the complainant home, he raped him in his bedroom, the complainant alleged.
The complainant told Gardaí the accused told him he needed to do exercises in bed and stripped off his own underpants and pants before intimately touching the complainant and pulling him onto the bed.
The complainant told Gardaí the accused told him “you’re very sexy, you’re turning me on”.
The complainant said he thought the farmer’s alleged behaviour was “strange”.
The complainant said he left and returned to his bedroom and the accused “took my pants off”.
“He (the accused) said relax, relax … It was hurting me, my head was hitting the wall.”
The complainant alleged the accused became angry when his own penis failed to become erect, and that he (the accused) tied a shoe lace around his own penis to try to make it “hard”.
The complainant further alleged that when the farmer was finished raping him, he left €150 cash beside him afterward sand said “Oh, I’ll pay you, here’s your €150 euro”.
The complainant also alleged that afterwards the farmer got him to walk about in his underwear and told him, “oh, that’s nice”.
The man told Gardaí: “He (the accused) violated me, he took everything from me when he came into my house and forced himself on me”.
“I felt so dirty, he (the accused) took me when I was at my lowest (ebb), he thought it was funny.”
The man said that after the alleged rape he “scrubbed and scrubbed” himself in water and soap “as he was all over my body”.
The accused denies two counts of anal rape as well as engaging in a sexual act with a protected person who lacked the capacity to consent to the sexual act.
The trial continues before a jury and Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring.
