#Sex Abuse
# sex-abuse - Thursday 31 October, 2019
Man United co-operating with sex abuse enquiry in relation to former employee
Billy Watts, an ex-caretaker, kit man and groundsman at The Cliff during the 1980s, is at the centre of the allegations.
# sex-abuse - Wednesday 16 October, 2019
Irish arrest in global takedown of dark web's most notorious paedophile site
The website sold the videos to users for bitcoin, which makes it extremely difficult to track the buyer.
# sex-abuse - Monday 14 October, 2019
Father-of-five jailed for 18 months after being sent two child sexual abuse videos
He had plead guilty to two charges of knowingly possessing child pornography on 31 October 2018.
# sex-abuse - Thursday 26 September, 2019
Co Tyrone man (61) sentenced for committing sexual offence against 8-year-old girl
Keith Lindsay was sentenced at Downpatrick Crown Court earlier today.
# sex-abuse - Tuesday 17 September, 2019
Cardinal George Pell lodges new appeal against convictions for child sex abuse
Pell is currently serving a six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s.
# sex-abuse - Thursday 11 April, 2019
Ex-pope Benedict XVI blames clerical sex abuse on 1960s sexual revolution
Benedict has written a 6,000-word essay for Klerusblatt, a German monthly magazine for clergy.
# sex-abuse - Saturday 23 March, 2019
Pope accepts resignation of Chile cardinal over sex abuse cases
Ricardo Ezzati, archbishop of Santiago, is the highest-ranking Catholic official in Chile.
# sex-abuse - Sunday 10 March, 2019
77-year-old man charged as part of historical clerical sex abuse probe in Belfast
The man will appear before court tomorrow.
# sex-abuse - Thursday 7 March, 2019
R Kelly taken into custody again for failing to pay child support
He was unable to come up with the $161,000 he owes in payments to his ex-wife and their three children.
# sex-abuse - Monday 25 February, 2019
R. Kelly pleads not guilty as court documents outline alleged sexual abuse of three underage girls
Bail for the R&B star has been set at $1 million.
# sex-abuse - Saturday 23 February, 2019
Top Catholic cardinal admits Church files on sex abuse were 'destroyed'
The cardinal was speaking at a landmark Vatican summit on tackling sex abuse in the clergy.
R Kelly hands himself into police following 10 sex abuse charges
He will appear in court tomorrow afternoon, a police spokesman said.
# sex-abuse - Saturday 16 February, 2019
Vatican defrocks former cardinal over sexual abuse of teenager in US
It is the first time a cardinal has ever been defrocked for sex abuse.
# sex-abuse - Monday 14 January, 2019
55 men arrested in England in historical child sex abuse investigation
All 55 have been interviewed and released under investigation.
# sex-abuse - Tuesday 8 January, 2019
Ex-youth football coach dies in car crash on day he's to stand trial for sex abuse charges
Michael ‘Kit’ Carson was accused of the sexual abuse of boys aged under 16.
# sex-abuse - Monday 22 October, 2018
'Evil, dark crimes': Australian PM apologises to thousands of victims of child sex abuse
The state apology comes after a five-year Royal Commission into child sex abuse.
# sex-abuse - Friday 19 October, 2018
The 'abuse was vile and wicked': 20 British men jailed for sexually abusing over a dozen girls
The convictions came in a series of trials that could not be reported due court restrictions.
# sex-abuse - Tuesday 10 July, 2018
Commission of investigation into allegations of collusion in Bill Kenneally case to begin in September
A number of survivors allege that there was collusion between the gardaí and the Catholic Church.
# sex-abuse - Saturday 7 July, 2018
'I reported the teacher who abused me but he was left teaching for three years afterwards'
Damian O’Farrell was married with children when he learned that the man who repeatedly abused him when he was 12 was still teaching children.
# sex-abuse - Thursday 28 June, 2018
Two more bishops resign in Chile over child sex abuse scandal
Several senior members of Chile’s Catholic Church are accused by victims of ignoring and covering up child abuse by paedophile priest Fernando Karadima.
# sex-abuse - Thursday 24 May, 2018
'Inexperienced and untrained gardaí' investigating allegations of child sex abuse
Special Rapporteur for Children Dr Geoffrey Shannon said there has been no significant follow-up from garda management after it asked him last year to help with training.
# sex-abuse - Friday 18 May, 2018
After being summoned to the Vatican over child sex abuse scandal, all Chilean bishops resign
The thirty-four bishops tendered their resignations today.
# sex-abuse - Tuesday 1 May, 2018
Pope Francis' aide to stand trial on multiple sex abuse charges
Cardinal George Pell has denied the historic allegations.
# sex-abuse - Sunday 4 March, 2018
In patriarchal Japan, saying ‘Me Too’ can be risky for women
Speaking out often draws criticism rather than sympathy, even from other women.
# sex-abuse - Thursday 1 February, 2018
Teenage sex abuse victim felt 'used liked a puppet' by man who blackmailed her over two years
Alan Feehily was described as “pure evil” by his victim.
# sex-abuse - Friday 19 January, 2018
Pope Francis enrages Chile sex abuse victims as he accuses them of slander
He said that until he sees proof of the sex abuse scandals in Chile, the accusations are “all calumny”.
# sex-abuse - Tuesday 16 January, 2018
Sexual abuse victim tells ex-US team doctor: 'You are a repulsive liar'
Nearly 100 women and girls planned to speak or have their statements read during an extraordinary four-day sentencing hearing.
# sex-abuse - Monday 13 November, 2017
Man who brought shotgun to bedroom before raping daughter handed 11 year jail sentence
The woman described how she felt sorry for her father, who she said had lost everything because of his decisions.
# sex-abuse - Wednesday 25 October, 2017
'I was misled': Eamon Dunphy defends visiting Tom Humphries in psychiatric hospital
Dunphy’s comments on the Tonight Show last night sparked criticism, as he said Humphries was given “just about the right sentence”.
# sex-abuse - Tuesday 24 October, 2017
Tom Humphries was afforded a trust that makes his crimes even more odious
Tom Humphries joins a string of other abusers who have eroded the simple innocence of growing up on a glorious field, writes club camogie player and TheJournal.ie news editor Sinéad O’Carroll.
# sex-abuse - Monday 9 October, 2017
David Walsh described Tom Humphries as 'a great, great man' after child sex allegations
The Sunday Times chief sports writer wrote a character reference for Humphries
# sex-abuse - Sunday 8 October, 2017
Child sex abuse accused whose file was 'shelved' for 11 years was 'close friends with senior garda' Exclusive
The woman’s case has sparked a garda review in the last three months.
# sex-abuse - Friday 6 October, 2017
50 witnesses to give evidence in sex abuse case against Australian cardinal
Pell is the most senior Catholic cleric to be charged with criminal offences related to the sexual abuse of children.
# sex-abuse - Thursday 5 October, 2017
Former PM Ted Heath allegedly sexually assaulted boys as young as 10
After a landmark, two-year investigation, police said he would have been questioned if he were still alive.
# sex-abuse - Wednesday 4 October, 2017
'Sex offenders may be continuing to abuse children despite Tusla being told of their activities'
One in Four said that Tusla was “woefully under resourced” and there were “great inconsistencies” in child protection procedures across the country.
Tom Humphries hears how victim 'blocked out childhood memories' to 'block out all the abuse'
The former sports journalist will be sentenced in three weeks time after a hearing yesterday.
# sex-abuse - Saturday 19 August, 2017
Roman Polanski in legal bid to return to US
The Polish-born filmmaker was accused of drugging and raping an underage girl in 1977.
# sex-abuse - Wednesday 9 August, 2017
A massive child sex abuse network was cracked by UK police who paid a child rapist to inform
A total of 278 victims have been identified.
# sex-abuse - Sunday 16 July, 2017
'I want my rapist father to die in prison for what he did to me': Woman continues fight for justice
The woman at the centre of an historical abuse allegation has written to the DPP asking for the reasons as to why her father was not charged.