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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Medical Rape, Irish Medical Council

The Medical Council

Public Information

The Medical Council is the regulatory body for doctors. It has a statutory role in protecting the public by promoting the highest professional standards amongst doctors practising in the Republic of Ireland.

In 2002, The Irish Medical Council heard 55 allegations against Dr Moira Woods, common law wife of, IRA Chief of Staff, Cathal Goulding. The Medical Council censured Dr Moira Woods for Professional Misconduct. The complaints arose from several investigations of child sexual abuse at a time when Dr Woods ran Ireland's first sexual assault unit in Dublin's Rotunda Hospital.

The Council's ruling came after an inquiry that began five years ago and ran to 43 days of hearing Forty-nine witnesses were heard, and the investigation cost £750,000.

Dr Woods had used anatomically correct dolls, and provided leading questions to the children involved, while reminding the children that they had previously told her where they had been touched.

There are reports of a case where Dr Woods allegedly failed to check opinions of other medics; where she accused fathers of abuse with insufficient evidence; where she failed to seek expert advice on a key issue before making far-reaching allegations of abuse. On her decisions, children were kept apart from their parents.

The case was inevitably chilling, as much for its implication as its recorded facts. It deals with nightmares: the terror of sexual abuse, but also the ultimate horror of any parent, losing custody of a child over false allegations of abuse.

There were allegations of over-hasty conclusions, unfair interviews and incomplete reports. In all, Dr Woods was effectively accused of 55 counts of misconduct. The tally is not as broad as it might seem, however, for the inquiry dealt with 11 children from a number of families. In each case Dr Woods was examined on five different areas of possible misconduct. These included failures to apply adequate clinical judgement, making accusations based on insufficient evidence, a failure of competence, not acting in the best interests of the children and acting in a manner derogatory to the medical profession.

The final tally of proven counts is not summarised in the Fitness to Practise Committee's findings, but examination shows the allegations against Dr Woods were found proven in 13 of the 55 allegations. In the case of one of the 11 children, the Committee ruled against Dr Woods in all five areas of possible misconduct. It was also found that she had accused a relative of sexual abuse in cases involving five of the 11 children, "when you knew or ought to have known that there was insufficient foundation to or basis for such advice".

Case Study Dublin's Rotunda Hospital

The following information has been taken from the Transcript of a Court case that was heard in open Court and in which the alleged victim waved her anonymity. While the Medical Report and Evidence were denied to the Jury by the Presiding Judge, the damage was done, in open Court the Trial Judge said that he was satisfied that the alleged finding of anal dilation related to the abuse alleged. His assertions were relayed to the Jury as they had lunch in a local Hotel.

Defense Council: Did you establish the allegations being made in this case before you began a medical examination of the alleged victim who was 17 years old at the time of the examination?

Dublin's Rotunda Hospital: Medical Expert for Prosecution: No

Defense Council: So, you began an invasive and detailed examination of the alleged victim without first establishing the allegations being made?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: Yes

Defense Council: So, let us start with your findings. What did you find in your examination of the virginal area?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: I found that the virginal area was 100% perfect, the alleged victim was Virgo Intacta, an untouched virgin.

Defense Council: Was there any scaring, tissue damage, anything to indicate sexual abuse?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: No, absolutely nothing

Defense Council: Let me read to you, one of the allegations being made in this case, he was penetrating my virgina with such force that my head was banging off the headboard and the headboard bouncing off the wall, is that consistent with what you found?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: Absolutely not, it is in no way consistent with my findings, her hymen was fully intact, and that in itself is unusual as about 60% of girls under 12 years old have their hymens broken by normal activity such as bike riding.

Defense Council: You then examined the anal area, is that correct?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: Yes

Defense Council: And what were your findings?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: I carried out an examination and found that there was anal dilation

Defense Council: Could you explain to the Court, what process you used to establish anal dilation?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: Yes, I inserted a digit into the alleged victim’s anus, and then concluded that there was anal dilation.

Defense Council: So, not having established the allegations in this case, you inserted a digit into the rectum of this 17-year-old alleged victim and concluded that a digit had been inserted, is that what you are telling this Court?

Medical Expert for Prosecution: Yes

Defense Council: It so happens, that while you did not establish the allegations being made in this case before your invasive examination of the alleged victim, the alleged victim, did, after your examination make a statement to Gardai alleging both virginal and anal digital penetration.

Medical Expert for Prosecution: I did not know that

Defense Council: Furthermore, following your invasive examination, the alleged victim made a statement to An Garda Siochana, however, following delivery of your Medical Report to An Garda Siochana, the Gardai asked the alleged victim to return to the Garda Station and change her statement so that it would be more in keeping with your findings, for example, she emphasised anal digital penetration.

Medical Expert for Prosecution: I did not know that

Defence Council: You are aware that the allegations in this case relate to several years before your invasive examination of the alleged victim, would it be possible that the anal dilation that you claim to have found related to your own digital penetration of the alleged victim than something that was alleged after the examination to have occurred years earlier?

NOTE: The Medical Expert in this case, by her own admission, stated that she had not established the allegations being made. The alleged victim may have simply been saying that her breast had been touched, yet, the Medical Expert set about a process that can only be described as Medical Rape. The Medical expert could offer not explanation to The Court why she engaged in such an invasive examination of the alleged victim in this case. An examination which was followed by allegations of anal and digital penetration.

The Medical Expert in this case, while having no explanation as to why she conducted such an invasive examination of a 17-year-old female, would later publicly reveal that she is a practising Homosexual and a campaigner for sexual freedom.

Dublin's Rotunda Hospital Sexual Assault Treatment Unit

The figures for three of the years of SATU's existence, from 1985 to 1987, show not only the rapid increase in referred cases, but also the remarkable validation rate claimed by the Unit.

The Medical Council said, "It is still noteworthy ... that during this period SATU arrived at an apparent 100 per cent validation rate. It will be noted that this process involved not just validation but identification of the relationship of the assailant to the victim."

Subsequent years brought a massive increase in cases referred to SATU, and though the validation rate dropped, the Committee believed it remained "very high". In 1987, for example, 600 children were examined and 511 offenders were identified.

The Committee found: "It is the view of the majority of the committee that such figures, even if they did not purport to be entirely scientific or conclusive, should have placed Dr Woods and the other persons involved in SATU on notice of the risks of excessive certainty and an excessive rate of validation."

There is detail in the Committee's findings that suggests Dr Woods made rash and potentially damaging judgements. Her methods are detailed and held as suspect. In effect, the Committee indicates, she did not take proper heed of the power of her position, a role where her word on cases was considered as final by others within the health care system.

"It is important...to recognise that not only might there be the potential for criminal proceedings," the Committee concluded, "but also there existed a very substantial risk that application for a fit person order might be made by the District Court which might have the consequences of the removal of children from the custody and care of their parents for an indefinite or unspecified period."

Individual cases outlined in the Committee findings make disturbing reading. One such case involving Miss A was first brought to SATU after a worker in a residential day care centre began to notice abnormal behavior exhibited by a mentally handicapped five-year-old girl. The care worker "stated that there was evidence of sexualised behavior," the Committee heard. "This included putting lollipop sticks ... and other objects including knives up her vagina. [The worker] also stated that there was evidence of her 'masturbating at night'."

Such behavior was, of course, hugely inappropriate for a five-year-old, and the care worker's fears were passed on to the relevant health board. The worker also contacted Dr Woods, "without the involvement of the parents", and an interview was conducted in late 1986. "It appears that anatomically correct dolls were used and a physical examination was carried out," the Committee says. "Dr Woods's report was issued thereafter. Although it does not positively identify [the girl's father] as the perpetrator, it points strongly towards him."

In a subsequent report, Dr Woods again repeated the suggestion. "It was apparent from an examination of Miss A that she had been sexually abused," the doctor wrote. "It was difficult to think of any other person who could have been in contact with her other than her father."

After the first report, a Health Board official contacted Dr Woods and told her Miss A had "several autistic features". The Committee reported: "He asked whether there could be any doubt under those circumstances about the origin of her behavior in inserting objects into her vagina, that is, having discovered it, she might have developed a fixation."

Dr Woods said she believed her assessment stood. The case went to the District Court, where Dr Woods "stated that all the indicators pointed to the father as being the perpetrator as he was the only person who could have been in regular contact with the child". The child was kept in care until 1989, when she was returned to her parents.

In its findings, a majority of the Committee found Moira Woods had acted without considering the possibility that the girl's actions were due to mental handicap rather than abuse. The doctor had not taken into account the possibility of any perpetrator other than the father. There was certainly opportunity for a range of abusers, as the girl had spent a period of time in residential care. "In the view of the majority of the Committee the failure of Dr Woods to obtain expert advice on autism was a substantial falling below the standards that are to be expected of a medical practitioner," the Committee found. In short, the Committee said, Dr Woods' conclusions and accusations were "inappropriate and too bold". In reports, she had failed to mention the possible connection between autism and the girl's behaviour.

In a separate case, the Committee heard evidence about Miss B, whose parents were involved in a legal separation at the time of the abuse investigation. The girl's father had assaulted her mother when she pregnant with a second child. The mother brought an assault case against her husband, who was placed on probation. After the assault but before the court hearing, Miss B's mother brought her daughter, then aged three, to a hospital to be examined for signs of sexual abuse. Nothing was found.

The couple separated, amid conflicting stories of domestic violence. After one weekend when the husband had access to Miss B, the girl's mother again brought her to hospital, saying she suspected abuse. The mother said the girl had suffered a vaginal discharge.

She was examined by a specialist, several weeks after the date of the alleged abuse, and again nothing was found. Such discharge, the doctor noted, was not rare in young girls. Dissatisfied, the mother took the recommendation of her GP and contacted Dr Woods.

The Committee noted: "The entire incident took place in the context of matrimonial proceedings where, clearly, it would be prudent for a medical practitioner to proceed carefully." Dr Woods, the Committee found, had not been careful enough. She interviewed the girl at her home and found "that Miss B had been sexually assaulted and that it was believed to have been done by her father," the Committee said.

There was a clear conflict between the diagnoses of Dr Woods and other medics who had been involved in the case, one of whom had concluded: "On the balance of probabilities, it is not possible to confirm that Miss B has been sexually abused."

Dr Woods, the Committee said, made no attempt to contact the other medics. She gave evidence in court it was her opinion Miss B had been sexually abused by her father.

Distressing detail punctuates the Committee's findings. The use of anatomically correct dolls is again mentioned in the case of Miss A, where one medical witness questioned Dr Woods' interpretations of the child's response. Dr Woods had written in a report: "Daddy lies on his back. Miss A lies on top. Daddy's penis is in contact with the vulva/vaginal area of Miss A." The Committee found that the medical witness disagreed with this interpretation of the dolls. Instead, the girl was "simply engaged in a game with Dr Woods that has no meaning or reality."

SURROUNDING the case, too, is the wider issue of Moira Woods's role within Irish liberal history. In the 1970s and 1980s, Moira Woods was a familiar and controversial figure. She stood at the forefront of change, allying herself to campaigns against the war in Vietnam, against Bloody Sunday, against the destruction of Dublin by developers. Most pertinently, she stood for a new kind of sexual freedom.

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Monday, November 2, 2020

Michael Barr, Murder, David Hunter, Dissident Republican

Man jailed for life for ‘cold and callous’ murder of ‘dissident’ Republican Michael Barr

David Hunter found guilty of killing ‘dissident’ republican at Sunset House pub in Dublin.

A car thief has been jailed for life by the non-jury Special Criminal Court for the murder of the Manager of the Sunset House pub in central Dublin by the Kinahan Cartel.

Liverpool native David Hunter (42), with an address at Du Cane Road, White City, London, had denied murdering Michael Barr (35) at the pub in Dublin’s north inner city on the night of April 25th, 2016.

Hunter is the second man to be found guilty of murdering Mr Barr, a dissident republican. Eamonn Cumberton (32), of Mountjoy Street, Dublin 7, was convicted of murdering the Tyrone native in January 2018.

The court found there was compelling evidence that Hunter was one of the two gunmen who entered the pub on Summerhill and shot Mr Barr.

In a victim-impact statement read by prosecution barrister Mr Dominic McGinn SC, Mr Barr’s former partner Jade O’Shea, who has a child with the deceased, said their six year-old daughter constantly asks for her father and that since the night he was killed their lives have been turned upside down.

Mr Barr’s sister Noeleen said in her statement that her brother was “brutally taken” from his five children and wider family.

‘Nightmare’

She said that after learning of Mr Barr’s death on social media she was “found in pieces” on the floor and described his death as a “nightmare” for the family and his children.

“How can you measure a life in drugs or money?” she asked.

She said the family had been through “mental torture” and described her brother as a talented sportsman, a family man and a gentleman.

Delivering sentence, Mr Justice Alexander Owens, presiding, sitting with Judge Gerard Griffin and Judge David McHugh, backdated Hunter’s life-sentence to April 2019, when he was first arrested on a European Arrest Warrant.

Speaking outside court, Det Supt Colm Murphy said that the shooting of Mr Barr was a “cold and callous” murder. He extended his sympathies to the Barr family and said that the garda investigation into the murder was ongoing.

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Sunday, November 1, 2020

Martin McCauley, RUC Murders

A member of the SF/PIRA Colombia Three is under investigation over an IRA landmine attack in which three RUC Officers were Murdered. Martin McCauley, who is from Lurgan but lives in The Irish Republic, is the focus of a new probe into the 1982 Murders.

Background

Sinn Fein/PIRA agreed to provide terrorist training to many international terrorist organisations since the formation of Sinn Fein/PIRA in 1969-70. This training was normally provided in exchange for weapons, ammunition and explosives.

However, the relationship between Sinn Fein/PIRA and Farc Narco-terrorists in Columbia would be very different. Sinn Fein/PIRA would be paid in drug money, Cocaine has long since been the currency of Farc, and in exchange for training Farc terrorists in various bomb and mortar making skills, Sinn Fein/PIRA would be paid from the cash generated by drugs smuggled into Ireland.

Sinn Fein/PIRA have a long and sordid relationship with the drugs trade. In this relationship with Farc, Sinn Fein/PIRA would assist, a relatively unknown Irish drug gang at the time of the Columbian 3 arrests, The Kinahan Gang, now referred to as The Kinahan Cartel, who are in a feud with the much smaller Hutch Gang.

Sinn Fein/PIRA would assist The Kinahan Cartel with the logistics of getting drugs into Ireland. The drugs would be sold by Kinahan’s network of dealers, the money would be laundered in front businesses belonging to The Kinahan’s and other premises belonging to Sinn Fein/PIRA, the latter mainly based in Dublin inner city.

Sinn Fein/PIRA in Columbia

At least 7 members of Sinn Fein/PIRA travelled to Columbia at various stages since the signing of The Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

The three who would become known as The Columbia 3, would be seasoned bomb maker, James Monaghan, James Monaghan was arrested with Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley in Colombia in August 2001 on charges of providing explosives training to FARC members. Connolly could speak fluent Spanish and was seen as an important asset.

FARC is the Spanish acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Marxist rebel group attempting to overthrow the country’s government since the 1960s.

NOTE: James Monaghan’s son, Donal O Coisdealbha (24), of Abbeyfield, Killester, Dublin 5, was charged with IRA membership and with possessing a timer power unit (TPU) at Profector Life Sciences based at Maynooth University. He was also charged with membership of an illegal organisation. This related to a plan to carryout a bomb attack on Prince Charles in 2015, when Prince Charles visited Ireland.

After a protracted trial, the men were found guilty in April 2004 of travelling on false passports but acquitted of the bomb-training charges.

However, the prosecution successfully appealed the latter decision and, in December that same year, the men were sentenced to 17 years in prison.

By then, however, the trio had jumped bail and fled Colombia. They resurfaced in Ireland in late 2005 and there have been no moves since to extradite them.

James Monaghan, while On-The-Run, from Columbian authorities, spoke at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis and assisted in Sinn Fein/PIRA’s general election campaign.

“To the world media, this was a story of major importance in terms of global issues of terrorism, intimately involving British and US intelligence, the Colombian government, the massive Colombian drugs industry, the US State Department, and the ‘peace process’ in Ireland.”

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Sinn Fein Resignations 2020

Follow the Money

Recent revelations about Sinn Fein/PIRA Officials and Elected Representatives, wrongly receiving and then failing for six-months to return Covid 19 Emergency Funding Grants for Small Businesses, may simply be the tip of the Ice-berg.

The Irish Observer, has just spoken to school friend who is related to one of the SF/PIRA forced to resign “The Leadership only forced our ones to resign as they don’t want an investigation, fortunes are going through Personal Bank Accounts belonging to Leading members in Tyrone” 1/11/2020.

For almost a year now there have been serious concerns raised by some members of Sinn Fein/PIRA about money raised at fund-raising functions in 2019, money which appears to have found its way into the Private Bank Accounts of card-carrying members of Sinn Fein/PIRA.

In October 2020, the need for both The PSNI and HM Revenue and Customs to Follow the Money, was highlighted yet again as four card carrying members of Sinn Fein were forced to return over £30,000 that had gone into personal accounts from an Emergency Grant Scheme for Small Businesses suffering due to the economic fallout from Covid 19.

Sinn Fein’s, Bonny and Clyde, couple, Catherine Kelly MLA and her husband Barry McColgan, Sinn Fein Manager, west Tyrone Constituency, have been forced to resign as have former Sinn Fein MP and now former Sinn Fein Senator, Elisha McCallion.

The Cathaoirleach (Chairperson) of the Upper Bann Comhairle Ceantair (Constituency Organisation) has also forced to resign in recognition of their failure to return the grant payment in a timely fashion.

According to a senior member of Sinn Fein/PIRA in west Tyrone, Sinn Fein/PIRA are carrying out a root and branch investigation into the alleged movement of organisational fund-raising monies into personal accounts of card-carrying members of Sinn Fein/PIRA.

It is anticipated that senior members of Sinn Fein/PIRA’s Finance Department will visit a number of Sinn Fein/PIRA Office Holders over the coming days and interview them about alleged missing monies.

This is not the first time Sinn Fein/PIRA MLA’s in Tyrone have come under the spot-light for Money matters, in the 1980s serious allegations were made about monies from a national Draw run by Sinn Fein/PIRA for a car. A great deal of money was never recovered.

Francie Molloy

An Assembly deputy speaker has been linked to the murder of an RUC reservist and named as a police informer.

Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy was a suspect in the killing of Eric Lutton, MPs were told yesterday in the Commons.

During a debate on policing, the DUP's David Simpson, MP for Upper Bann, made a series of astonishing allegations against the senior Executive politician.

He claims the Mid-Ulster MLA, a father-of-four, was "well-known for his sexual indiscretion" and was recruited to spy on the IRA after being caught in a "compromising position".

Mr Simpson claimed the IRA's impregnable East Tyrone brigade was broken open by the secrets passed on by Mr Molloy, but alleged information had been held back that cost innocent lives.

Frederick 'Eric' Lutton, a 40-year-old father-of-two, was shot dead on May 1, 1979, near Moy in Co Armagh. The IRA claimed responsibility for killing the National Trust caretaker, Mr Simpson's cousin, but no-one has ever faced charges.

Speaking under parliamentary privilege, the MP said: "While at the family home, investigating officers discussed the case in front of Mr Lutton's wife and his family. They identified one Mr Francie Molloy as a live suspect having a role in the killing.

"They discussed the need to pursue a further investigation of Mr Molloy. To a man, they agreed this was a vital line of inquiry.

"Molloy was well known to the police yet none of this was ever fully investigated. Why was he not properly investigated?

"As well as being a suspect in the Lutton case and as well as being known to the police, Francie Molloy was also well known - and this information is from the police - for a series of sexual indiscretions.

"This was to rebound on Francie Molloy. Francie Molloy was caught by the security forces in a compromising position. As a result of this he was recruited as an informer for the police.

"During the years that followed Molloy passed on information to the police in Northern Ireland. This helped them to break open the IRA's notorious East Tyrone Brigade. Prior to Molloy's recruitment, the East Tyrone Brigade had been virtually impregnable. After it they suffered setbacks, taking direct hits and losing personnel.

"Any right-thinking person would wish to welcome the fact that the police in Northern Ireland were able to run agents against the IRA but in this instance, even though Molloy was an informer, it is also true that during that time innocent people were attacked, injured and murdered and Molloy said or did nothing to prevent it. He was less than a willing informer.

"While he gave over enough information to help compromise the IRA in east Tyrone, the question still lingers as to whether he gave everything he knew.

"Any good that Molloy may have done acting as an informer against the IRA and helping to compromise the East Tyrone Brigade was more than cancelled out by this callous disregard for the lives of his neighbours.

"Today, Francie Molloy is deputy speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly. He is also the Sinn Fein spokesman on victims. If ever anyone was wholly unsuitable for a such a position on victims, it's Francie Molloy."

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