A Dublin salon worker has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman during a pedicure treatment.<\/p>\n
The man, aged in his 30s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Dublin District Court on Monday for a trial venue ruling. <\/p>\n
The incident is alleged to have happened at a South Dublin beauty salon in July of last year.<\/p>\n
In court, Garda Sgt Niall Murphy said it was alleged that a 30-year-old woman came to the salon for a pedicure. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe was asked if she wanted a full pedicure. She said she did not understand what she was being asked, but agreed to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd in the course of that, the allegation is that [the] defendant massaged her inner thighs with the back of his hands and during the course of that, three times massaged over her genital area with the back of his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Director of Public Prosecutions directed summary disposal of the case in the District Court rather than a trial on indictment in the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.<\/p>\n
After hearing an outline of the prosecution\u2019s evidence, Judge Treasa Kelly accepted jurisdiction and noted the defendant\u2019s not guilty plea.<\/p>\n
She adjourned the case until January to schedule a hearing date. The accused was remanded on continuing bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin salon worker has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman during a pedicure treatment. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[115035,9,10,115036,8531,8106,18,13,14,115037,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,115038,12548,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-210281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-3rd-level","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-collons-avenue","12":"tag-dcu","13":"tag-dublin-city-university","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-featured-news","16":"tag-featurednews","17":"tag-graduation-clothing","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-latest-news","22":"tag-latestnews","23":"tag-main-news","24":"tag-mainnews","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-queuing","27":"tag-third-level","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115646438089401112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}