When the girl resisted his attentions, McCarron struck her in the face, knocking her down twice. While she was on the ground he seized her by the throat, and with his other hand covered her nose so that she lost consciousness.
After that she remembered nothing until she found herself in the mill stream, which was in full flood. She got out somehow and struggled to a road, although half-blinded by the assault. Two people who found her took her to a shop kept by her uncle, who had difficulty in recognizing her as his niece.. At a hospital a doctor stated that she had been criminally assaulted.
Mr, Glynn Blackledge, defending, suggested that McCarron' lost control of himself through drink.
Supt. Ritchie described McCarron, a native of ce Donegal, as a man of violent temper.
Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson said to McCarron; "You come from a country where, when I knew it, if there was one thing that Irishmen and boys respected, it was the chastity of their womenfolk.
"Ju this case you have committed upon a young woman of good character and virtue a savage and brutal assault of a kind which exceeds anything I have ever met with in the whole of my experience."
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