![]() Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring asked: “What about the view that it was two against one which would add to the inability of to rail against it?” Ms O’Connell said the offending was preceded by games based on childhood observations of farm animals and the sexual offences developed from there when the accused was in his early teens and without maturity or a grasp of sexual matters. Ms O’Connell handed in what she described as a bundle of testimonials from a local doctor, priest, peace commissioner, many neighbours and others who spoke about his respectable family background and the fact he is hardworking and obliging in his local community. Ms O’Connell SC said her client was found to be at a low level of cognitive ability and was - in a psychological report - deemed to be at low risk of re-offending, now being a hardworking man who is married with children. In July, Ms Justice Ring agreed to defence senior counsel applications by Alice Fawsitt and Elizabeth O’Connell to remand the two accused on continuing bail until October 17 in order to attend to certain work-related matters on their farm in advance of sentencing. Mr Boland said the bull aspect of the game returned when one of the brother’s put his penis in his cousin’s anus, and that the other defendant put his penis in the complaint’s mouth on two occasions, constituting oral rape. touched his penis and genitals and tried to kiss him.” They would all be wearing T-shirts and underwear. There was also a game of mammies and daddies. “This became more sinister and sexualised. ![]() They might have seen this occurring on the farm. In the game a bull would enter the room and the bull would mount the cow. ![]() It occurred in the good room - the parlour. They would take turns being the farmer and the cows. Mr Boland said: “They used to play a game in the living room of the house. Ray Boland, prosecuting senior counsel, said all of the disputed events occurred in the 1990s when the complainant and the two defendants were in their early teens, the two accused being older than the victim. They found his brother guilty of oral rape twice and two counts of sexual assault. The jury found one of them guilty of sexually assaulting his cousin twice and raping him anally once. During the summer, the case was brought against the two brothers for raping and sexually assaulting a younger cousin when he was staying at their home.
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