A Dublin salon worker has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman during a pedicure treatment.<\/p>\n
The man, aged in his 30s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Dublin District Court on Monday for a trial venue ruling. <\/p>\n
The incident is alleged to have happened at a South Dublin beauty salon in July of last year.<\/p>\n
In court, Garda Sgt Niall Murphy said it was alleged that a 30-year-old woman came to the salon for a pedicure. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe was asked if she wanted a full pedicure. She said she did not understand what she was being asked, but agreed to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd in the course of that, the allegation is that [the] defendant massaged her inner thighs with the back of his hands and during the course of that, three times massaged over her genital area with the back of his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Director of Public Prosecutions directed summary disposal of the case in the District Court rather than a trial on indictment in the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.<\/p>\n
After hearing an outline of the prosecution\u2019s evidence, Judge Treasa Kelly accepted jurisdiction and noted the defendant\u2019s not guilty plea.<\/p>\n
She adjourned the case until January to schedule a hearing date. The accused was remanded on continuing bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin salon worker has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman during a pedicure treatment. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93966,93967,16179,22199,93968,61,60,43,93969,17159],"class_list":["post-169890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-3rd-level","tag-collons-avenue","tag-dcu","tag-dublin-city-university","tag-graduation-clothing","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-queuing","tag-third-level"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}