# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 5 October, 2018
There was an “unprecedented increase” in disguised websites solely dedicated to distribute child sexual abuse imagery.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 11 May, 2018
Over 5,000 images and 328 videos were found on the man’s computer during a Garda raid of his Dublin home.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Thursday 6 July, 2017
Alleged victim claims she was told gardai ‘forgot’ to send file to DPP.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 31 March, 2017
He pretended to be a 15-year-old boy online and shared the images pretending them were of himself.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Monday 27 February, 2017
An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 children from institutions and poor families were shipped to Australia from 1922 to 1967.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Wednesday 9 December, 2015
Paul Blaikie, 38, had five years added to his jail term for being a “dangerous and manipulative individual” who poses a risk to children.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 20 November, 2015
Dr John Wolf was also allegedly recorded saying he deliberately tries to infect sexual partners with HIV.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 13 November, 2015
Robert Lee Moore sent a series of explicit and graphic messages and photos to two undercover federal agents.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Saturday 24 October, 2015
Patrick Killen would “beg, bribe and cajole the unsuspecting boys to send him sexually explicit pictures,” then share them with others online.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 11 September, 2015
“Their callousness beggars belief,” said one investigator.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Saturday 22 August, 2015
The priest repeatedly molested the girl from the time she was five.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
He will face sentencing for crimes committed over 30 years ago
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 15 May, 2015
His offences took place between 1996 and 2002 and were described today as some of the most serious investigated by the Public Prosecution Branch.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Wednesday 6 May, 2015
Canadian police said the case spanned 17 countries.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 1 May, 2015
The 85-year-old is already serving a five year jail term for sexually assaulting several girls.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Monday 23 March, 2015
There are parallels between Sinn Féin’s reaction to allegations by Paudie McGahon and Maíria Cahill and the Catholic Church’s pursuit of its own institutional safety.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 13 March, 2015
Police said he plied the boys with alcohol on school trips when he was a teacher.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Tuesday 3 March, 2015
The man raped his teenage sister-in-law while she was babysitting.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Thursday 18 December, 2014
Police say it is “credible” that members of a ‘VIP paedophile ring’ murdered three boys between 1975 and 1984.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 12 December, 2014
It has recommended that clergy be given “psychosexual” training.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 28 November, 2014
“It’s time to get tough with these people.”
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# child-sexual-abuse - Monday 24 November, 2014
Frances Fitzgerald said a cross-border inquiry was being considered.
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Ten months on from the European Court of Human Rights’ judgement in favour of Louise O’Keeffe, nothing had been forthcoming from the State for survivors.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Sunday 2 November, 2014
The Taoiseach said the Sinn Féin leader was “somebody who knows quite a lot about the IRA movement.”
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# child-sexual-abuse - Wednesday 22 October, 2014
Despite our moral outage to reports of abuse, one in five women and one in six men still experience some level of sexual abuse during childhood.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Tuesday 21 October, 2014
He did some horrendous things with what he thought was a nine-year-old girl.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Sunday 1 June, 2014
“We’ve been abused, pure and simple. It beggars belief that the Government cannot own up to that.”
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# child-sexual-abuse - Wednesday 1 January, 2014
As yet, the Papal Commission initiative is quite short on details; I see opportunity and hope in this ‘space’ but it will take courage to enter it from both sides, writes Mark Vincent Healy.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Monday 4 November, 2013
Dutch children’s rights organisation Terre des Hommes created a virtual character, known as Sweetie, to operate in public chat rooms in order to catch thousands of people.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Tuesday 10 September, 2013
Survivors of child sexual abuse seeking justice are not met with understanding or sympathy in Irish courts – rather they are attacked, derided and denied psychological support. This cannot be viewed as justice, writes Mark Vincent Healy.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Monday 9 September, 2013
To give the survivors of horrific childhood abuse the support and care they need, we must properly understand the threat that suicide poses to victims, writes Mark Vincent Healy.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Tuesday 3 September, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# child-sexual-abuse - Friday 12 July, 2013
Previously redacted information has now been made public, and details allegations of abuse made against the priest.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Wednesday 26 June, 2013
The RCNI has called for an end to the current system which allows a child’s intimate counselling notes, discussing their sexual abuse, to be used during a court trial.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Saturday 1 June, 2013
A survivor of abuse tells a priest it is time he comes forward and tells the truth.
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# child-sexual-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-sexual-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-sexual-abuse - Thursday 26 July, 2012
CARI’s annual report for 2011 also showed change in callers’ primary concern from intra- to extra-familial abuse.
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# child-sexual-abuse - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
Monsignor William J Lynn was sentenced to three to six years in prison after decades of playing down allegations of clerical sexual abuse.
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Diarmuid Martin has said that there were “questions still to be answered” in relation to the abuse scandal.
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