Prosecutors in the retrial of a Dublin firefighter arrested in Boston on rape charges told jurors the defendant was using his anonymity far from home to commit rape.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen one woman walked away he found another woman who couldn\u2019t,\u201d assistant district attorney Danielle Mendes told jurors in the state\u2019s opening statement. <\/p>\n
Terence Crosbie (39) is charged with assaulting a 29-year-old attorney in a shared hotel room while his colleague Liam O\u2019Brien slept in the opposite bed. <\/p>\n
Mr Crosbie has denied the allegations. <\/p>\n
Jurors were seated on Thursday morning. In the afternoon, they heard that the complainant had consensual relations with Mr O\u2019Brien at the Omni Parker Hotel after meeting him at The Black Rose bar on Thursday, March 14th, 2024. <\/p>\n
Mr Crosbie and Mr O\u2019Brien had travelled to Boston with a group of more than 10 members of the fire brigade to march in the St Patrick\u2019s Day parade that Sunday and were gathered at The Black Rose bar that evening.<\/p>\n
Ms Mendes told jurors they will see CCTV footage of Mr Crosbie \u201ckissing\u201d another woman at The Black Rose Bar hours before assaulting a 29-year-old attorney at the Omni Parker hotel.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe used his trip to be anonymous far from home and to commit a rape he thought he could get away with,\u201d Ms Mendes said. <\/p>\n
She told the court the complainant fell asleep after having relations with Mr O\u2019Brien, adding that when she woke up \u201cthere was a stranger on top of her\u201d. That stranger was \u201cnaked, violating her body\u201d and actively raping her, it was claimed. <\/p>\n
That man had an \u201cIrish accent\u201d but he wasn\u2019t \u201cbald like Mr O\u2019Brien\u201d, Ms Mendes said. This man had a different physique and was insulting Mr O\u2019Brien, she said. <\/p>\n
Defence attorney Patrick Garrity began his opening statement with his hands on Mr Crosbie\u2019s shoulder, insisting that his client is innocent and that he is seated in this courtroom because this is the \u201conly avenue he has to fight these allegations\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Garrity told jurors that the only evidence the state has of what actually occurred inside the hotel room \u201cis the word of a woman\u201d.<\/p>\n
He insisted that the complaint\u2019s account is inconsistent and unreliable. \u201cWe do not convict people on maybes, we don\u2019t convict people on what-ifs,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you listen to her and you hear her tell you that she had been drinking not for a little while but for ten hours that day . . .\u201d <\/p>\n
Mr Crosbie was arrested at the airport attempting to catch an early flight home after he was questioned about the rape by Boston police in March 2024. He has remained in remand ever since. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in the retrial of a Dublin firefighter arrested in Boston on rape charges told jurors the defendant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-85235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85235","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=85235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}