# child-abuse - Yesterday’s News
The annual report of the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI) said two allegations of abuse have taken place since the turn of the millennium.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Children as young as 11-years-old were abused by what prosecutors called “vicious sexual predators”.
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Stuart Hazell unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty yesterday, admitting to killing the 12-year-old before stuffing her body in an attic.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
In a recent broad-ranging interview, Frances Fitzgerald talks about schools being ‘too ashamed’ to stand up to bullying, ‘unacceptable’ waiting lists and ‘bad news’ in service inspections.
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# child-abuse - Monday 29 April, 2013
Operation Pallial has now been handed over to the National Crime Agency.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
“I am one of the fortunate survivors to have succeeded in securing a criminal conviction against one of two Spiritan priests who sexually abused me,” writes campaigner Mark Vincent Healy.
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The third tranche of reviews have been welcomed by survivor advocacy group One in Four.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
In 2002, the Irish teacher faced 56 charges of sexual abuse involving 11 victims but the case never went ahead.
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# child-abuse - Monday 15 April, 2013
The deceased founder of one of the largest Irish colleges in the country is the subject of historic allegations of sexual abuse against dozens of children.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Steven Smith may face death penalty in Ohio should intent to kill be proven.
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# child-abuse - Friday 22 March, 2013
A number of complaints of sexual abuse of minors against the priest have been upheld by a canonical penal trial today.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Files released last month revealed how a Cardinal had discussed how to cover up alleged crimes. He is now at the Vatican, choosing a new pope.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
A review of allegations made against Jimmy Savile during his lifetime found mistakes were made by the police between 1964 and 2012.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Louise O’Keeffe claims that the State is liable for abuse she suffered at the hands of a school principal in Kinsale, Co Cork in the 1970s.
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# child-abuse - Friday 15 February, 2013
Fiona Doyle said today that she may also pursue her mother in the courts.
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# child-abuse - Thursday 7 February, 2013
The report found that children who complain of sexual abuse are often dismissed or ignored by police and other officials.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
The Vatican’s new chief prosecutor said many of the cases date back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 3 February, 2013
“Margaret was committed to industrial school in 1954. She was 2 yrs 4 mths old. She left 49 years later in a coffin.”
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# child-abuse - Saturday 2 February, 2013
Cardinal Roger Mahony has been stripped of his administrative duties and court-ordered to release thousands of pages of confidential files on sexually abusive priests.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
The release on bail, pending an appeal, of an elderly man who repeatedly raped his daughter when she was younger was raised at Leaders’ Questions.
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# child-abuse - Monday 7 January, 2013
The 83-year-old former BBC presenter was charged in December after allegations were made to police.
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# child-abuse - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Minister Alan Shatter is expected to introduce laws to increase monitoring of sex offenders, but should they be tagged after serving their sentence?
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
June Tinsely of Barnardos said young men who act as boyfriends to teenage girls coerce them into having sex with other men.
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# child-abuse - Friday 7 December, 2012
A new study says the clergy has been accused of 576 cases of sexual assault between 2000 and 2010.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
The charges are that Hall indecently assaulted three girls between 1974 and 1984.
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# child-abuse - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Facebook was given 72 hours to take down the original page which contained a photo and comments about a convicted sex offender.
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# child-abuse - Thursday 15 November, 2012
The man in his 60s was arrested in Bedfordshire this morning on suspicion of sexual offences.
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# child-abuse - Monday 12 November, 2012
An internal investigation at the BBC has found “basic” journalistic failures in a news report which wrongly accused a senior politician of child abuse.
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Mark Thompson assumed his new role at The New York Times today amid questions about whether the crisis engulfing the BBC would spill over to the US news organisation.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
New figures from the Rape Crisis Network found people who had been abused as children made up the majority of cases of people seeking counselling last year.
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# child-abuse - Friday 2 November, 2012
In announcing a “charity sermon,” it speaks of “numberless unhappy females whom it has reclaimed from vice by religious and moral instructions”.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
The 88-year-old man is due to appear in court next Wednesday.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 28 October, 2012
The former singer has been released on bail after being arrested in connection with child abuse allegations as part of investigations into Jimmy Savile.
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It’s a common refrain that widespread abuse was only exposed in recent decades – but the real story is very different, writes Fin Dwyer.
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# child-abuse - Friday 12 October, 2012
There will now be at least three separate investigations into the allegations against the Jim’ll Fix It presenter.
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# child-abuse - Thursday 11 October, 2012
The HSE’s Diocesan Audit Report of the safeguarding arrangements in the Catholic Diocese in Ireland was published this afternoon.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
# child-abuse - Sunday 30 September, 2012
One woman tells the story of her mother who was sent to a Laundry in Dublin at the age of 16 – and died there at the age of 51.
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# child-abuse - Saturday 22 September, 2012
The criminal offences were carried out mostly between the 1930s and 1980s, the Church in Victoria said.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 16 September, 2012
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