Daughter tells of father's actions at incest case
A eight-year-old girl has claimed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that her father used his penis to put cream on a rash on her bottom.
When asked by prosecuting counsel, Ms Úna Ní Raifeartaigh BL, what part of his body her father used to apply the cream she replied: "Don't be grossed out now, he used his 'willy'."
She was giving evidence via video-link on day-two of the trial of her father who is alleged to have sexually abused her and her sister over a number of years.
The 36-year-old man, who is originally from Co Clare and cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of sexual assault on the girls, on dates between September 2001 and December 2004 in a Co Offaly town.
The girl said she was aged between four and five when the alleged offences took place and told Ms Ní Raifeartaigh that her father used to lie on top of her on the bed and push her head onto the pillow.
She said he would do this to her every night her mother was at work. Earlier she told how she noticed that her father used to be kind to her but that he became "evil" and "turned into an unkind evil daddy."
"He'd hurt us a lot and he didn't used to," she said.
She told defence counsel, Mr John Phelan SC, in cross-examination, that she told social workers about her father using the cream when she was "a baby" and in further reply to counsel she replied: "A baby is until the age of two."
The trial continues before Judge Desmond Hogan with a jury of five women and seven men.
