“I was shocked, gobsmacked, my mouth was on the floor.” Jade Rasmussen could not believe it when her long-time boyfriend was jailed last month for a serious physical assault on her.
Having read about Cathal Crotty, then a 22-year-old soldier, with an address at Parkroe Heights, Ardnacrusha, Limerick, getting a three-year suspended sentence for a brutal random assault on Natasha O’Brien in Limerick city in May 2022, Ms Rasmussen said she never thought Aidan Walsh would get a prison sentence.
Ms Rasmussen was a 23-year-old student at Dublin’s Trinity College when she was assaulted on September 9th, 2020, at a holiday home in Co Clare by Walsh, now aged 28, with an address at Castle View, Carrickmines, Dublin 18.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court previously heard that, during an assault that ran into the early hours of the morning, Walsh kicked Ms Rasmussen in the legs, punched her in the back, put his hands around her neck and pushed her against a countertop.
Ms Rasmussen said Walsh had told her he was returning to Dublin without her. Under the impression he had left the house, she attempted to take her own life but he returned and intervened, before dragging her down a wooden flight of stairs, causing her “indescribable pain”.
“I will never be able to forget that he wanted to let me fall off the edge of the banister so that I could break every bone in my body,” she said in her victim impact statement, which she read to the court.
Read her interview:
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/11/18/im-hoping-at-least-one-girl-who-is-on-the-fence-about-reporting-her-violent-boyfriend-will-read-about-my-case/
Having read about Cathal Crotty, then a 22-year-old soldier, with an address at Parkroe Heights, Ardnacrusha, Limerick, getting a three-year suspended sentence for a brutal random assault on Natasha O’Brien in Limerick city in May 2022, Ms Rasmussen said she never thought Aidan Walsh would get a prison sentence.
Ms Rasmussen was a 23-year-old student at Dublin’s Trinity College when she was assaulted on September 9th, 2020, at a holiday home in Co Clare by Walsh, now aged 28, with an address at Castle View, Carrickmines, Dublin 18.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court previously heard that, during an assault that ran into the early hours of the morning, Walsh kicked Ms Rasmussen in the legs, punched her in the back, put his hands around her neck and pushed her against a countertop.
Ms Rasmussen said Walsh had told her he was returning to Dublin without her. Under the impression he had left the house, she attempted to take her own life but he returned and intervened, before dragging her down a wooden flight of stairs, causing her “indescribable pain”.
“I will never be able to forget that he wanted to let me fall off the edge of the banister so that I could break every bone in my body,” she said in her victim impact statement, which she read to the court.
Read her interview:
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/11/18/im-hoping-at-least-one-girl-who-is-on-the-fence-about-reporting-her-violent-boyfriend-will-read-about-my-case/
