(1) #tuambabies Under s19 of the 2004 Act if any witness including member of Religious Order gives evidence of having abused facilitated ..
— Kevin Higgins (@Boglawyer) January 16, 2015
(2) #tuambabies the illegal adoption of hundreds of children or even having caused the death of children their identity is protected … — Kevin Higgins (@Boglawyer) January 16, 2015
(3) #tuambabies and they have immunity from criminal prosecution. Thank you Dr Reilly
— Kevin Higgins (@Boglawyer) January 16, 2015
There you go now.
UPDATE: Not so fast. (See comments).
Section 19 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004
Previously: Reputable History
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I’m completely confused.
What did Dr. O’Reilly do?
Was wondering the same myself – they weren’t in gov in 2004?
So you can now kidnap people and mistreat them eventually causing death and if you are a member of a religious organisation you won’t be prosecuted?
That dont sound right… maybe ‘lying eyes’ should hired a religious hit man…
F*ck sake
Michael McDowell introduced this Bill to the Dáil.
The link to the relevant section is below. Without Section 19 no one would ever give testimony to an inquiry out of fear of incriminating themselves. Those tweets are nonsense.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2004/en/act/pub/0023/sec0019.html#sec19
And its not immunity – the inquiry testimony just can’t be used in a court case.
Yeah, it’s not even close to giving immunity.
I could say something bad about someone in the course of a tribunal and the Gardai couldn’t use that against that person to convict them of a crime.
There’s nothing to stop me saying the same thing again in a witness box in a criminal trial.
I see the “septic tank” phrase has been conveniently removed from the lexicon.
One is left wondering what the next hoax will be.
Is it God being real?
A burning bush?
Although, there’s a cream for that.
Of course even without the septic tank it’s just the infant mortality rates of between 47-68% per annum that needs explaining away. Oh and the paid adoptions. And the clinical trials. Oh and the general abuse….
They nicked Harold Shipman for considerably less dodgy percentages.
There’s nothing stopping any private citizen who feels they are a victim from pursuing justice through to the courts. There is no immunity for priests and religious. Yet another myth falsely promulgated.
There may be no immunity but there’s plenty of non-cooperation.
and @rse covering. lots and lots of @rse covering. oh, and don’t forget the exemption from any sort of compensation for the victims.
Sure, they can’t pay compensation, they have no money*
*Stacks of lovely money
But you do admit there’s no immunity, don’t you?
This “immunity” myth is yet another one to add to the collection.
You seem to be off your game today ABM, is everything ok?
So these tweets are wrong on almost every level, right so.
Take this post down, the guy’s reading of the law is absolutely incorrect. It says nothing like he’s claiming.