A former secondary school teacher from Co Donegal has gone on trial, charged with sexually assaulting a young teenage student in the mid-1980s.
Jacintha McSherry O’Connor, from the Mullins in Donegal Town, has pleaded not guilty to the offences.
RTE reports that the 63-year-old is charged with two counts of indecently assaulting the boy between June and September 1985 when the boy was aged 13.
Prosecuting counsel Garrett McCormack said when the complainant was in first year, Ms McSherry O’Connor was a student teacher at his school in Dublin.
After the boy had finished first year, the court heard Ms McSherry O’Connor and her friend spent time with the boy and his family on holiday abroad.
Mr McCormack said there was sexual contact between Ms McSherry O’Connor and the boy in the swimming pool and on a balcony.
He said this was a teacher in her 20s and a first year secondary school student. Consent was not an issue in the case, he said, because the complainant was a child at the time.
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