YOUNG girl laughed when she opened the door of her parents' bedroom and saw her 13 year old brother raping her best friend in 1994, a jury was told at the Central Criminal Court.
The alleged victim, now 14, from Co Limerick agreed with defence counsel, Mr Kevin Haugh SC (with Mr Roger Sweetman), that if her claims were true one of her best friends had "abandoned her to her fate".
She told the jury of six men and six women that when confronted with her allegation seven months later, the accused boy told his mother he had kissed her. His mother asked if that was all and he replied. "I shifted her."
Asked to explain, he continued. "I went all the way but I didn't force her." The girl said she replied "You did."
The accused boy's mother told her son. "That's a dangerous thing to be doing," the girl claimed.
The accused boy, now 15, has pleaded not guilty to raping and sexually assaulting his neighbour on May 7th, 1994.
The alleged victim told Mr Anthony Kennedy SC (with Mr John McDonagh), prosecuting that she was friendly with the accused boy's two sisters. On the day of the alleged incident, she was in the girls' home playing computer games in their parents' bedroom.
The accused boy came upstairs. The girls heard a pot boiling over bin the kitchen and went to go downstairs. They left the bedroom, but the accused boy pulled the alleged victim back and gushed her on to the bed.
The girl claimed the sisters would have seen the accused pulling her back into the room but they closed the door.
She said she continued screaming while the accused fondled her and then raped her. At one point one of the sisters opened the door sawn her brother on top r of her and laughed, she said.
The alleged victim said that afterwards the accused said to her. "I'm sorry, I'll never do it to you again."
She told the accused boy's sisters she was going to tell her own parents what had happened. They told her not to as they would all get into trouble. She did not complain for seven months.
On December 4th, 1994, the accused warned her not to tell anyone. She told her parents and went with her father to confront the accused.
The girl denied that she had complained of rape because the accused had approached her in December 1994 and blamed her for spreading rumours alleging they had sex. She also denied kissing and groping consensually with the accused boy on hiss parents' bed in May 1994.
The trial continues before Mr Justice Budd.