Child Rape in Ireland

IRELAND

The Only Country in the Modern World where child rapists and their conspirators dictate Child Protection Legislation

For decades successive Irish Governments have failed to introduce the mandatory reporting of Child Rape in The Irish Republic. This decision not to introduce mandatory reporting of Child Rape has been dictated by the very people who are the very worse offenders of child sexual crime in Ireland.

The Ferns Report, The Ryan Report and the Murphy Report have all shown conclusively that the Catholic Church and those in civil society who have committed and concealed the rape of children are the very people who have insured that the mandatory reporting of child rape is not put on the statute books.

Papers of record such as the Irish Times have for many years given detailed and objective insights into the lack of progress or movement by successive Governments in relation to Child Protection. In 2002 Patsy Mc Garry of the Irish Times wrote an article based on empirical evidence and fact, “Clerical abuse a problem in many nations”, yet with all of this fore warming the Irish Government continued to give sway to the Catholic Church and those in civil society who do not want the introduction of mandatory reporting of Child Rape.

Fianna Fail has been the worst offender in this criminal failure to introduce mandatory reporting of Child Rape. While the Fianna Fail Party (senior Coalition government partners 1997-2010) made mandatory reporting of Child Rape an election promise in 1997, there is no legislation in operation for the mandatory reporting of child rape in the Irish Republic.

Prior to the introduction of the 1997 Criminal Justice Act there existed in common law the crime of ‘Misprision of Felony’. Misprision of Felony simply meant that if a person had knowledge of a serious crime having been committed by another person or persons but had concealed or failed to report such a crime to the Garda Siochana they could be prosecuted. The 1997 Criminal Justice Act created two new offences but neither had the scope of the charge of Misprision of Felony. The first, under section 7(2) of the 1997 Act, occurs where a person knows that someone has committed an arrestable offence (punishable by five years or more of imprisonment), and does without reasonable excuse any act with intent to impede the apprehension or prosecution of that person. This new offence under the 1997 Act requires the doing of a positive act with intent to impede prosecution, so a mere failure to report a crime may not be sufficient for prosecution.

The other new offence created under the 1997 Act, section 8, which replaces a different common law offence of ‘compounding a felony’, applies only where a person knows that an arrestable offence has been committed but agrees for some consideration (for example, money) not to disclose that information. It is also worth noting and with particular regard to the revelations about the Catholic Church hierarchy that section 15 of the 1997 Act applies the abolition of the crime of ‘Misprision of Felony’ retrospectively insuring that such people as Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Christian Brothers, Social workers, and so forth will never be prosecuted for their crimes and the crimes of those they sought to protect from prosecution.

It is further worth noting that as this Government continues to protect those who conceal/ed and therefore facilitate/d Child Rape it is nothing less than criminal, as far back as 1990 The Law Reform Commission said that failing without good cause to report child rape should be made a specific offence for particular categories of persons such as doctors, health board staff and so forth. This recommendation must be fully implemented and must include every citizen of this State. It is time that the selective prosecution of the few to feed the ghoulish appetite of the tabloids banner headlines, was replaced with full, open and transparent child protection legislation including mandatory reporting of child rape.

Today in the Irish Republic a person can admit to HSE staff that they have raped a child/ren and that person can simply be sent off to the Granada Institute for a few psychotherapy sessions without ever having to fear prosecution. That HSE staff member concealing that information from the Gardai or those staff in the Granada Institute concealing that information cannot be prosecuted for such concealment. Children continue on a daily basis to be put at risk of rape or sexual assault because this government has failed to introduce mandatory reporting of child rape.

This Government has failed a new generation of children who are being abused, as this Government continues to be dictated to by the very criminals both in the Church and Civil society who do not want mandatory reporting of child rape introduced. It is no accident that Fianna Fail was the Government who removed the crime of Misprision of Felony; it is Fianna Fail’s unsavoury links with the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church since the foundation of the Irish Republic that has allowed religious child rapists to avoid prosecution and detection. The Ferns, Murphy and Ryan Reports are an indictment of Fianna Fail’s collusion with their masters in the Catholic Church hierarchy, a hierarchy that continues to be wined and dined when they should be persona none gratis.

By - http://theirishobserver.blogspot.com/