Man claims daughter lied about rape

A Dublin man charged with raping his daughter has told a jury that she made her allegations after he threw her out of the house…

A Dublin man charged with raping his daughter has told a jury that she made her allegations after he threw her out of the house because she was out of control.

The 45-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to 19 counts of rape between October 1994 and October 1997, when the girl was aged 10 to 13.

He told Mr Diarmaid McGuinness SC, defending, that his daughter said he was going to pay for throwing her out after an argument in February 1998.

He denied that he had asked to be arrested in order to make a full confession, as claimed by gardai. He said he had gone to the Garda station to make a statement exonerating himself and had been arrested.

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Asked by prosecuting counsel Mr Patrick J. McCarthy SC if he was claiming that his daughter made false allegations, despite evidence from her brother and gardai that they were well-founded, the man said he believed she made a complaint and could not back out of it.