This morning’s Irish Sun
On Friday, Gary Meneely reported in The Irish Sun that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) is investigating allegations that a Munster-based garda sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl.
Mr Meneely reported that the garda, against whom the allegations have been made, “is based in a busy station and involved in some of Ireland’s most serious crime cases”.
Further to this, Mr Meneely reports today:
“…we [The Irish Sun] have learned the gardaí failed to contact the appropriate child protection agencies as rules of conduct dictate.
“It is understood that concerns — that the young girl had been abused by a senior officer — were raised to gardaí around three years ago. But it was only when a separate complaint was made to the Garda Ombudsman that GSOC referred the concerns to the relevant children protection agencies.
“…Gardaí have acknowledged that on this occasion a referral to the HSE Children and Family services was not made. This was is in contravention of the responsibility for reporting in accordance with the Children First Guidance document — the national guidelines for the protection and welfare of children in Ireland.
The District Officer failed to retain in writing a record of the decision and the justification for not initially reporting the alleged child protection issues in compliance with the HQ directive.
Garda quizzed over sex attack on 11-year-old girl (The Irish Sun, December 9)
Welcome to Ireland where ‘discretion’ is implemented rather than the law, which is great if you are a politician, garda, intercounty gaa player, business moguls, celbrity, and pretty poor for the rest of us
I love how the shame of an offense is considered to be like a prison sentence for business people caught with their hands in the till. Oh it was very embarrassing for the white collar criminal. Sure that’s bad enough, we needn’t send him to jail too.
‘Pillars of the community’
We really need to do away with that sort of nonsense, especially in Ireland. We’ve a bit of a thing about so-called ‘authority figures’ in this country.
I’m not aware of a country that doesn’t operate like that, in fairness…. sadly.
Has anyone seen Series 3 of ‘Line of Duty’?
Yeah, it’s basically what is unfolding over in the U.K. at the moment with the football sexual abuse cases
No. Did you give it to me? I thought you had.
Some of the best TV in recent years. Powerful, brilliantly acted and gut wrenching at times precisely as you just know the plot lines are based in reality.
PEP’s
id say he’s very worried now that the laziest minister we have is ‘concerned’ .. oof, hate to be him
Wonderful photo of Flat Head Frannie looking “concerned”. There’s a lot to be concerned about but, Hey, she and her gal pal are off to Greece. It can wait.
All will be revealed, hopefully and the reason will be surprising