In a letter sent to The Irish Observer a group styling themselves, "The National Association of Convicted Sex Offenders", have stated that they are ensuring that all of their members are registered to vote in prison and will be encouraging their members to vote for Fianna Fail in the forth coming General Election.
The letter signed by former DJ/Journalist, Eamon 'Captain' Cooke, who is presently serving life in Wheatfield Prison for raping children, states that:
"We the members of NACSO pledge our support to Fianna Fail who have consistently opposed calls from those in the 'victims industry' to introduce Mandatory reporting of Child Rape, it is essential that people such as Cardinal Sean Brady, Gerry Adams and other leaders in our country are able to help and assist sex offenders when the opportunity is presented".
"We salute in particular former Minister for Justice, John O Donoghue TD, for ensuring that those members of the religious orders who were accused of sexual crime were given One Billion Euro in order that they could be protected from financial ruin".
When contacted by The Irish Observer today, the Irish Prison Service said that prisoners had the right to register to vote and that they could vote for whom ever they desired. The IPS also conformed that the right for prisoners to vote was achived by Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh some years ago in a High Court challenge, Walsh is presently serving 13 years in Wheatfield for sexually abusing two children.
Sexual Crime in Ireland
John Muncie (2000) sets the media and publics attitude to crime, into context, when he tells us that:
Any cursory glance at television programme listings, the contents of mass circulation newspapers or the shelves of fiction in book shops will confirm the extent to which an audience perceives crime not just as a social problem but as a major sourse of amusement and diversion, the way in which we enjoy violence, humiliation and hurt casts doubt on the universal applicability of harm as always connoting trouble, fear, loss and so on. For participants, too, the pleasure in creating harm, or doing wrong or breaking boundaries is also part of the equation and needs to be thought through (p.225).
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