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Senator Eileen Flynn’s private members’ bill would replace the term with “child sexual exploitation material”.
The case was the Vatican’s first criminal trial for such allegations.
The report said an estimated 3,000 child abusers – two-thirds of them priests – have worked in the church during the past 70 years.
Criticising colleagues who “refuse to believe there is a shared responsibility in this respect”, Reinhard Marx said the Church is at “a dead end”.
The platform, named as “Boystown”, had existed since 2019.
The victim did not realise her father was behind everything until the age of 21.
Albaraa Turkistani was sentenced today.
Justice Owens imposed 14 years imprisonment and suspended the final two years on strict conditions.
Joe McAveety was born in a mother and baby home and grew up in industrial schools which were rife with physical and sexual abuse.
Cora Desmond has spoken about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Bridget Kenneally.
The doctor was jailed for four years in February of last year.
Sarah Hughes, a Childline volunteer, says some children are trapped in abusive homes during Covid-19.
The second part of Noteworthy’s investigation into domestic abuse finds vulnerable children are losing out on supports and escape during the pandemic.
The ISPCC said home is not a happy place for all children and they do not have their regular support network in schools anymore.
Michael O’Brien created one of the most powerful moments in Irish television, when he passionately told his story on RTÉ in 2009.
As RTÉ examines the legacy of States of Fear, 21 years on, Sheila Ahern discusses the landmark documentary and the late Mary Raftery, its producer.
Greater Manchester Police’s re-launched investigation has identified 53 potential victims.
Early drafts of a letter that caused a row between the agency and Scouting Ireland contained stronger criticism of the organisation than the final version.
Mr Justice Ryan said the claim that 170,000 were admitted to institutional school is, in fact, closer to 42,000.
“Choking is a massive issue,” among teenagers, psychotherapist Stella O’Malley told RTÉ’s Today with SOR show.
An estimated 6,000 females in Ireland have already undergone the harmful procedure.
The Fermanagh journalist details how he and the victims are exposing wrongdoing and seeking the truth. It is not just his job, but his duty, he writes.
Richard Huckle was given 22 life sentences in 2016 for an unprecedented number of offences against children.
Appearing on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show, the popular broadcaster said for years he blamed himself for what happened.
The social media network has been dogged by several privacy scandals in recent years.
Gardaí launched an investigation and arrested the mother and father, aged in their thirties, last month.
The majority of the money will go to the fund, while €429,000 is to be paid to the National Children’s Hospital.
Neglect and sexual abuse were among the suspected crimes that Tusla was slow to report.
An independent report found that the club’s former chief scout was able to operate ‘unchallenged’, abusing boys in the 1970s.
The searches, conducted between Monday and today, were carried out as part of Operation Ketch.
The most common form of abuse in cases referred to Tusla was emotional abuse.
In its efforts to avoid paying compensation to victims, the State has spent €1.5 million on legal fees and re-traumatised some of its most vulnerable citizens, writes Conor O’Mahony.
The children involved were left with a foster family for several years despite abuse claims.
The law declares that anyone who has knowledge of abuse is obliged to report it to the Church.
David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin pleaded guilty.
Aicha Dounia was abused by her biological father from the age of four but she refuses to live a life ‘consumed by hatred’.
Google is pioneering self-driving cars and bringing the internet to remote parts of Africa via a network of giant balloons, yet somehow they cannot deal with snuff films or child abuse images, writes Diarmuid Pepper.
Child protection expert Shane Dunphy writes that the allegations are credible and consistent but cannot now be proven definitively.
Twenty-three searches have been carried out by gardaí in recent days.
A Protection of Minors meeting is due to take place in the Vatican later this month.