# child-abuse - Thursday 13 September, 2012
Finian Egan, 77, has been charged with indecently assaulting a girl on three occasions in the 1960s.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
There was a higher incidence of abuse amongst those in religious orders and the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church of Ireland said this is worthy of further consideration.
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Summary of the main findings of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland into the religious order of the Irish Province of Spiritans.
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Four dioceses and three religious orders have been scrutinised as part of an all-island review.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 19 August, 2012
Families of Marc Dutroux’s victims staging protest over freeing of Michelle Martin.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Irish parents must be given access to controlled information on sex offenders in their area, writes independent TD Denis Naughten.
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# child-abuse - Monday 30 July, 2012
A Newstalk Nation survey finds that 49 per cent of people believe it is acceptable to slap a child under certain circumstances.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 29 July, 2012
Authorities believe the child has spend most of her life living with cows – saying she can neither speak nor eat with a knife and fork.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
TD Denis Naughten who published the bill this week said Garda intelligence should be used to protect our children.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 17 July, 2012
A 28-year-old woman was sentenced to 16-months for sexually assaulting and exploiting her four-year-old daughter.
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# child-abuse - Monday 2 July, 2012
The Catholic Communications Office says there’s “no concrete information” about a rumoured visit in 2013.
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# child-abuse - Monday 25 June, 2012
An Indiana judge has upheld a ruling barring those convicted of child sex offences from social networking sites.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 24 June, 2012
US authorities say the 29-year-old woman faces charges of assault, child abuse and endangerment.
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# child-abuse - Saturday 23 June, 2012
Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of child abuse.
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# child-abuse - Friday 22 June, 2012
Monsignor William Lynn is the first U.S. church official convicted of a crime for how he handled sex-abuse accusations.
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# child-abuse - Thursday 21 June, 2012
Nine things to know this morning…
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They should. Irish people have been trafficked abroad for sex – but it’s not as simple as you might think, writes David Lohan.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 20 June, 2012
Towards Healing’s first annual report says that over 28,000 counselling sessions were provided last year.
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# child-abuse - Friday 15 June, 2012
However, he stopped short of offering a specific apology for his own actions in the investigation of child abuse.
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# child-abuse - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
The organisation received over 13,000 calls last year. More than 2,000 of those calls related to direct emotional, physical and sexual abuse of children.
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# child-abuse - Monday 11 June, 2012
Some callers said they had harmed themselves, while others reported eating disorders and relationship difficulties.
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# child-abuse - Saturday 9 June, 2012
Eighteen children were rescued from locations in the US and Europe.
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# child-abuse - Friday 25 May, 2012
A new alert system has been launched aimed at spreading information quickly to the media and public when a child is believed to have been abducted.
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# child-abuse - Thursday 24 May, 2012
New figures show details of accusations against ten serial abusers in the diocese – one of whom had 97 allegations against him.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 22 May, 2012
A couple in Lancashire are facing charges of child abuse after admitting to locking their son in a converted coal bunker.
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# child-abuse - Monday 21 May, 2012
Your nightly round-up of the day’s biggest news stores…
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Powerful new video from ISPCC highlights damage caused by verbal abuse.
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Dutch paedophile was convicted of abusing more than 60 young children.
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An Oireachtas briefing paper outlines that Alan Shatter’s proposed legislation does not tackle ‘sacerdotal privilege’.
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Nine things you should know this morning.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 15 May, 2012
We need to draw a line under our tragic history of child abuse – and a new international standard is the perfect opportunity, writes Tanya Ward of the Children’s Rights Alliance.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 13 May, 2012
Victims of institutional abuse oppose plans to establish a trust fund for abuse victims, instead of simply giving cash payments.
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# child-abuse - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
But the clerical abuse survivor welcomed yesterday’s public apology from the Primate of All Ireland.
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# child-abuse - Monday 7 May, 2012
Our round-up of the day’s main stories – as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.
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Catholic Church leader apologises to abuse victims and says he regrets “very much” that parents of children at risk weren’t informed.
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# child-abuse - Sunday 6 May, 2012
The Archbishop of Dublin said an international investigation of the actions of both Church and State was needed to reveal the “full story”.
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# child-abuse - Saturday 5 May, 2012
One’s civic duties are not the same as one’s self-imposed religious obligations, writes TheJournal.ie columnist Lisa McInerney – nor are they superseded by them.
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The minister for education has affirmed he will continue to seek cash from the bodies which managed the residential institutions where abuse took place.
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# child-abuse - Friday 4 May, 2012
A report in a newspaper today said the Vatican had turned down Cardinal Brady’s resignation in 2010 – but the Catholic Church says this never happened.
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Fr Vincent Twomy says Brady “has unfortunately lost his moral credibility” over the 1975 abuse inquiry.
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