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# child-abuse - Friday 20 March, 2020
'Isolated at home with their tormentor': Childline experiences increase in calls since closure of schools
The ISPCC said home is not a happy place for all children and they do not have their regular support network in schools anymore.
# child-abuse - Wednesday 4 March, 2020
'It was now or never': Abuse survivor on why he spoke out on RTÉ programme in 2009
Michael O’Brien created one of the most powerful moments in Irish television, when he passionately told his story on RTÉ in 2009.
# child-abuse - Monday 2 March, 2020
Opinion: 'States of Fear' may have caused a seismic shift in Ireland, but more needs to be done
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.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 14 January, 2020
Police in Manchester apologise to children abused 'in plain sight' by grooming gangs
Greater Manchester Police’s re-launched investigation has identified 53 potential victims.
# child-abuse - Sunday 15 December, 2019
Internal Tusla documents reveal staff complained of poor engagement from Scouting Ireland
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.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 26 November, 2019
Chair of child abuse inquiry reports "seriously erroneous" figure in commission report
Mr Justice Ryan said the claim that 170,000 were admitted to institutional school is, in fact, closer to 42,000.
# child-abuse - Thursday 21 November, 2019
There's been an increase in sexual assaults among teens, says Cari
“Choking is a massive issue,” among teenagers, psychotherapist Stella O’Malley told RTÉ’s Today with SOR show.
# child-abuse - Wednesday 23 October, 2019
'It's a serious form of child abuse': Thousands of girls in Ireland at risk of female genital mutilation
An estimated 6,000 females in Ireland have already undergone the harmful procedure.
# child-abuse - Sunday 20 October, 2019
Rodney Edwards: How one brave man walked into our newspaper office to uncover shocking sex abuse cases
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.
# child-abuse - Monday 14 October, 2019
One of Britain’s worst paedophiles stabbed to death in prison
Richard Huckle was given 22 life sentences in 2016 for an unprecedented number of offences against children.
# child-abuse - Saturday 5 October, 2019
'I thought it was my failing': Former footballer Richie Sadlier reveals he was sexually abused as a child
Appearing on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show, the popular broadcaster said for years he blamed himself for what happened.
# child-abuse - Friday 4 October, 2019
Facebook warned that new privacy rules could aid terrorism and child abuse
The social media network has been dogged by several privacy scandals in recent years.
# child-abuse - Monday 16 September, 2019
Couple accused of child cruelty after daughter (9) suffered serious injuries refused bail
Gardaí launched an investigation and arrested the mother and father, aged in their thirties, last month.
# child-abuse - Friday 6 September, 2019
Christian Brothers to pay outstanding €6.8 million to redress scheme
The majority of the money will go to the fund, while €429,000 is to be paid to the National Children’s Hospital.
# child-abuse - Wednesday 14 August, 2019
Watchdog finds that Tusla failed to alert gardaí to crimes against children in a timely manner
Neglect and sexual abuse were among the suspected crimes that Tusla was slow to report.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 6 August, 2019
Chelsea staff 'turned blind eye' to sexual abuse
An independent report found that the club’s former chief scout was able to operate ‘unchallenged’, abusing boys in the 1970s.
# child-abuse - Thursday 25 July, 2019
Gardaí seize 'childlike sex doll' as 14 addresses raided around country
The searches, conducted between Monday and today, were carried out as part of Operation Ketch.
# child-abuse - Monday 24 June, 2019
More than 6,000 physical abuse referrals to child and family agency last year
The most common form of abuse in cases referred to Tusla was emotional abuse.
# child-abuse - Monday 17 June, 2019
Opinion: The State's refusal to compensate survivors of abuse violates human rights law
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.
# child-abuse - Thursday 23 May, 2019
Taoiseach will act upon report which lists catalogue of failures into HSE and Tusla handling of foster home abuse case
The children involved were left with a foster family for several years despite abuse claims.
# child-abuse - Thursday 9 May, 2019
Pope issues law requiring Catholic clergy members to report sex abuse - but not to police
The law declares that anyone who has knowledge of abuse is obliged to report it to the Church.
# child-abuse - Friday 19 April, 2019
US couple sentenced to life in prison for imprisoning 12 of their children
David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin pleaded guilty.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 16 April, 2019
Opinion: 'I'm not a victim, I am a survivor ... I don’t flinch when someone touches me'
Aicha Dounia was abused by her biological father from the age of four but she refuses to live a life ‘consumed by hatred’.
# child-abuse - Wednesday 20 March, 2019
Opinion: Tech giants must be held responsible for publishing images of murder and child abuse
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-abuse - Sunday 17 March, 2019
Leaving Neverland: 'A monster was hiding in plain sight and we chose to look the other way'
Child protection expert Shane Dunphy writes that the allegations are credible and consistent but cannot now be proven definitively.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 5 February, 2019
Addresses in 11 counties searched as part of investigation into child sexual abuse images
Twenty-three searches have been carried out by gardaí in recent days.
# child-abuse - Saturday 2 February, 2019
Campaigner calls on Catholic Church to remove 'vagueness and ambiguity' from response to child abuse
A Protection of Minors meeting is due to take place in the Vatican later this month.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 20 November, 2018
Redress Board work cost €1.1bn, while abused residents in industrial schools get €970m
The awards are made to those abused while resident in industrial schools.
# child-abuse - Saturday 17 November, 2018
UCD research to explore how child abuse survivors found strength in their struggles
The research aims to identify the positive factors that helped peole who experienced trauma in their childhoods.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
New centre aims to ease trauma for children who have been sexually abused
The pilot programme will run in Galway in the new year.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Arrest over distribution of 'child sex dolls' as gardaí raid 32 premises
Digital material, computers and mobile phones were seized in the searches which took place over the last five days.
# child-abuse - Sunday 19 August, 2018
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin: 'The Pope has to speak frankly about our past'
The Archbishop of Dublin was speaking with less than a week to go until Pope Francis visits Ireland.
# child-abuse - Tuesday 7 August, 2018
Germany jails couple who sold son to paedophiles online for more than two years
The court found that the unemployed couple had sexually assaulted the boy, now 10 and sold him on the so-called darknet.
# child-abuse - Wednesday 1 August, 2018
Employee awarded €8,000 after colleague linked homosexuality to child abuse
The harassment occurred over a six-month period.
# child-abuse - Thursday 26 July, 2018
Gardaí seized a number of 'child sex dolls' in raids today
It is understood up to 30 homes are being targeted in today’s searches.
# child-abuse - Monday 18 June, 2018
Man to be sentenced next month for possessing almost 1,000 child abuse images
Some of the children depicted were no older than two-years-old.
# child-abuse - Friday 8 June, 2018
Man (73) who admitted abusing two sisters will not face retrial for abusing their brother
A previous conviction was overturned following a successful appeal.
# child-abuse - Friday 1 June, 2018
Former head of children's home jailed for life for abusing boys in 1970s
Bryan Davies lured teenage boys to his room by offering them alcohol or cigarettes.
# child-abuse - Friday 11 May, 2018
'Truly dreadful': Dublin man (20) jailed for possession of graphic child abuse images
Over 5,000 images and 328 videos were found on the man’s computer during a Garda raid of his Dublin home.
# child-abuse - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
Clare teenager thought about killing his mother to end 'years of abuse' against him and siblings
The woman is to be sentenced next month.
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By Conor Casey
Conor Casey of Trinity College says a challenge to the new legislation would be unlikely to succeed.
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