A CO Kildare man (19) has been convicted by a jury of threatening to kill a woman with a carving knife if she did not perform a sexual act with him.
Anthony Griffin threatened the woman with a knife while she was walking in her local park just before midday.
Griffin, of Avondale Estate, Leixlip, had pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexual assault, producing a knife while committing an assault, assault with intent to commit sexual assault and a threat to kill or cause serious harm on August 14th, 2006.
Judge Tony Hunt directed that Griffin's name be added to the register of sex offenders, and remanded him in custody for sentence.
The jury took three hours to reach its verdict on day six of the trial.
The woman told prosecuting counsel, Una Ni Raifeartaigh, she was about half way through her one-hour circuit of the park when Griffin threatened her with the knife after exposing himself.
She said she tried to appeal to Griffin not to harm her and told him she was pregnant, but he replied: "I don't give a f.... I'll kill you and the baby."
The woman said she rejected his demand for oral sex, and told Ms Ni Raifeartaigh she remembered thinking: "I have to do something to stall him" when he threatened he was going to kill her.
She said she tried to talk to him to delay him in the hope that somebody would come along, but he continued to hold the knife in his raised hand. She knew at this stage she was in trouble, and described her attacker as being "very definite".
"He continued to say: 'I am going to kill you.' He spoke in a normal, local accent and was very clear, very calm and precise to make me understand exactly what he was going to do if I did not do what he wanted."
She started to panic and raised her voice while her attacker kept saying: "Quiet, stop shouting." He was blocking her pathway, and she could not go anywhere.
She then saw a man coming over the hill and she let out a gasp "like a cry for help".
The accused lunged at her, cutting her in the left breast and ran away in the opposite direction. She said the wound was not very big.
She told Ms Ni Raifeartaigh she then went to the man she had just seen and after explaining to him that she had been attacked, he walked with her through the park to her car.
She then went to the Garda station. Five days later she returned to the station where she pointed out the accused in an identity parade.
She described her attacker as being tall and thin, with short brown hair, brown eyes and a definite jawline. She told Ms Ni Raifeartaigh she was certain it was Griffin.