Prosecutor had ‘grave concerns’ over cross-examination of 12-year-old rape victim

By Eoin Reynolds, Ireland International News Agency Ltd. 13 January 2021

A barrister for the Director of Public Prosecutions has said she had “grave concerns” over the cross-examination of a 12-year-old boy who was repeatedly raped by his father.

At a Court of Appeal hearing yesterday, Pauline Walley SC said that the child “zoned out” and became “fed up”, “exhausted” and “agitated” during the six-day cross examination as he was questioned repeatedly on certain matters and at length on matters that counsel described as mundane.....

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