Child Rape in Ireland

HSE are protecting 23,000 self confessed Child Rapists and Sex Abusers


The Irishobserver.blogspot.com has been informed by a now retired Senior Social Worker that between the 1st of January 1980 and the 1st of January 2010, 23,000 persons both men and women have admitted to Social Services that they have raped or/and sexually abused children, but that not one of these self confessed sex offenders have been reported to An Garda Siochana.

While other cases have been reported to An Garda Siochana these 23,000 files have not been referred to An Garda Siochana even though they have been proven by the offenders own admissions to staff of the fourteen area Health Boards.

In several cases of multiple child rape, men and women have simply been sent to the Granada Institute for a short counselling course and have then been allowed to return to the family home in which many of these rapes occurred. In cases where the offenders could not afford to pay for counselling in the Granada Institute they had simply to meet with a child psychologists for short weekly sessions in the Health Board concerned.

As there is no mandatory reporting of Child Rape in Ireland it is not an offence for any one to conceal the rape of a child. In towns and villages all over the country Health Board staff and others can legitimately conceal child rape and abuse for a host of reasons including personal.

When contacted by theirishobserver.blogspot.com the HSE said that it could neither confirm nor deny the figures.


Case in point:

During the trial and conviction of Simon Murphy, a publican from Wexford, it was disclosed that social services had agreed that if Murphy paid for counselling for both himself and his five child rape victims at the Granada Institute his file would not be sent to the Gardai. It was only many years later when one of Murphy’s rape victims (his sister) decided that this process had been wrong and she went to the Gardai that this prosecution lottery was exposed, yet nothing has changed.

The victims in Murphy’s case waved anonymity. His sister later got a High Court settlement of 400,000 Euro from her Brother.