Accused of assaulting woman in Kildare home while children were present

A defendant was accused of assaulting a woman in County Kildare.

The man, who cannot be identified at present due to reporting restrictions imposed by Judge Desmond Zaidan, was accused of trespassing into a woman’s house and assaulting her after she got out of a bathroom in her home on a date in 2021.

Recapping the details of the case to the judge, gardaí at Naas District Court on Thursday, March 23, alleged that the accused struck the woman a number of times, and that he also threw a candle holder at her.

It was alleged that there were children in the home at the time of the offence.

The man also allegedly threatened to 'blow her house off the map.'

The case will return to the court on a date in May.