A book of evidence will be required in the case against a 25-year-old man accused of raping a girl and making child sexual abuse material as well as demanding money from her with menaces.<\/p>\n
The matter had been adjourned until today to see if there would be a signed plea of guilty or if a book of evidence would be required.<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor Eddie Burke said the book of evidence would be required.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Enda Dowling objected to bail being granted to the accused last week, expressing the concern that he would be a flight risk if released on bail.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis said the Director of Public Prosecutions directed that the case would be sent to the Central Criminal Court for trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alternatively, the defendant could sign a plea of guilty at the district court and be sent forward for sentencing at the Central Criminal Court.<\/p>\n
Two counts of rape relate to January 5 2024 and in respect of the same date there is a charge against him of knowingly producing child pornography for the purpose of distribution, publication, exportation, sale or show.<\/p>\n
There is a related charge of coercing a child to participate in the production of child pornography.<\/p>\n
A further charge alleges that on dates between December 30 2023 and January 5 2024 he allegedly made a demand with menaces for the payment of \u20ac12,000.<\/p>\n
Det Garda Dowling testified in the course of his objection to bail:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe led her to believe she was responsible for a \u20ac12,000 drug debt because she was the only person who knew about the drugs. Garda\u00ed are satisfied that this drug seizure never happened.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
In the course of his evidence he said there was a video, which appeared to be taken by the accused, as the child engaged with him in oral sex and that the video suggested she was acting under his instructions.<\/p>\n
There are further charges against him in relation to theft of various sums of money ranging from \u20ac32 to \u20ac500 and of jewellery, including a \u20ac6,500 diamond ring.<\/p>\n
Judge Mary Dorgan remanded the accused in custody to Cork District Court on November 13. On that date his appearance will again be by video link from prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A book of evidence will be required in the case against a 25-year-old man accused of raping a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-84877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84877","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=84877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}