The trial of a man accused of assaulting a two-year-old child after she got sick has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
The man is alleged to have grabbed the child of his then partner by the hair and put her in the bath where he put shampoo in her mouth and washed it down.
The 25-year-old pleaded not guilty to assaulting the child causing her harm; wilfully assaulting her in a manner likely to cause unnecessary injury; and producing a kitchen knife while committing an assault at their Kildare home on March 5th, 2008.
The child’s mother told the court, the accused man put shampoo and conditioner into the child’s mouth and washed it down with the shower hose.
She denied a suggestion the accused man told her he was leaving her and that she had taken the split badly.
The trial continues.