Marcin is a former colleague of mine, we used to “work” together a long time ago. Few months back, I found Marcin’s profile on Facebook and I asked my friend to chat up to him on facebook messanger. My friend was pretending to be 13 years old girl but Marcin had no problem with talking to underage minor about sex and was willing to meet with 13 year old for sexual encounter. Below screenshots of conversations between Mr. Grabarczyk and underage girl from messenger app are in Polish, but there will be English translation under each one of them. If you do not trust the translation itself, you can always ask some of your Polish friends to translate it for you, or you can use google translator.
Here is the translation of above conversation. Please note that some of the messages appear twice so I’m translating them once only.
Marcin: What kind of underwear do you like?
Alice: I like latex and leather
Marcin: That’s right
Alice: With studs. And you? What are your favorites? (there was previous question of what color is my favorite. That question is not on the screenshot. Asking him what are his favorite I was asking about his favorite color).
Marcin: White, red and black.
Marcin: I would like to have fun with underage girl.
Alice: 12 years old one? Are you there?
Marcin: Maybe 14 years old, and let her pussy be dirty
Alice: Are you pedophile?
Marcin: He he he
—————– next day conversation ———–
Marcin: but only you
Alice: That’s even more interesting
Marcin: Yes
Alice: But you know, I’m only 13 years of age
Marcin: in black pantyhose only (that line should come together with above “but only you in those black pantyhose” but my friend was typing too fast)
Alice: isn’t that a problem for you?
Marcin: No
Alice: I’m only 13 years old
Marcin: that’s even better, you naughty Alice
Alice: and what would you do with 13 years old girl?
Marcin: I would smell your pussy
Alice: and then?
Marcin: then I would lick your ass, I would leave my tongue in your asshole
Alice: do you like it?
Marcin: a lot
Alice: anything else?
Marcin: I can tell you what the other Alice did with me when I visited her once
Alice: tell me what would you like to do with me
Marcin: Alice, would you be dressed up?
Alice: How would you like?
Marcin: I would prefer that you would be
Alice: in what?
Marcin: I would undress you slowly, carefully looking at you. You could wear a skirt up your knees. I would carefully pamper you, who knows if I wouldn’t explode already. Then I would sniff your legs, feet, etc… I would lick your pussy and ass
Alice: My small 13 year old feet?
Marcin: But your pussy is so great, I was masturbating yesterday while looking at it. (day before he received random picture of female vagina from google, thinking that he really got picture of underage girl’s genitals).
Marcin: You could send me another one, the excited and inviting one.
Marcin: Alicia, you can be 13 year old, I will be happy to meet you.
Alice: What if I am above average intelligent?
Marcin: That’s even better cause I never had teenage girl before (we doubt that after reading )
Alice: (continuing) and I can hold conversation like a mature person?
Marcin: Why have you changed your profile picture?
Alice: I didn’t
Marcin: I’ve added rainbow. Show me your picture you 13 year old in pajamas
Alice: would you like to see 13 year old pussy?
Marcin: Yes, but I’ve seen your pussy already, can you show me more?
Alice: Can you take a picture of yourself?
Marcin: yes, I can (sends selfie)
Alice: yes
Marcin: please send me yours Alicia
Alice: how old are you?
Marcin: how old do I look like?
Alice: you look like old pedophile
Marcin: he he, you are nice
Alice: would you like a picture of naked 13 year old girl?
Marcin: waiting for
Alice: do you really want?
Here the conversation from the screenshots ends. There was more conversations then that but I decided to only post the most disgusting stuff as transcribing few hours of conversations would take ages. We have chosen this fragments as they clearly show who Mr. Grabarczyk really is and what type of urges are on his mind. Among other pictures he sent us were pictures like these:
Dublin pedophile Marcin Grabarczyk sends picture of his penis to 13 year old girl
Lucky for us, Mr. Marcin Grabarczyk was not careful enough and he shared his home address with us as well as his car registration number:
15 Riversdale Rd, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, D22 K729, Ireland – current address of pedophile Marcin Grabarczyk
151-D-44658 is the license plate of Mercedes vehicle that is being used by the pedophile from Dublin, Ireland Marcin Grabarczyk
What can and what should be done about him?
Me and my friend are very disgusted from what Mr. Grabarczyk told us. At the moment we have no proof that above mentioned man have sexual encounters with minors, however we know that he is open to such possibilities. The question and moral dilemma we have here is: Should we wait until Marcin Grabarczyk will cause some harm and life lasting trauma to some underage girl one day, or should we do something now to prevent such thing happening in the future? What would you do? Would you report that man to Gardai? Force him out of your community? Maybe it is good idea to force him to seek professional help?
You can say to yourself “I don’t care, that is none of my business” but the girl he spoke to could be your daughter or your sister, or maybe daughter or sister of your friend. Do you really think that there should be place in society for people like this? We believe that something needs to be done about this issue with this pedophile, before something he will do will cause an issue itself.
DUBLIN, Ireland - In what is being dubbed the “worst paedophile ring in the State,” gardai said that they had managed to identify 14 victims suspected of being abused by a ring being operated from Munster.
According to officials, 11 people were arrested during the bust - including six women and five men and that all the members belonged to an extended family.
Gardai said that all those arrested are being interrogated by investigators about the activities of the paedophile ring.
According to sources, the paedophile ring is suspected of letting strangers rape and sexually abuse the children in exchange for cash.
Further, officials said in a statement that the suspects range in age from their 20s to their 70s and are all Irish nationals.
The victims meanwhile include both male and female and range in age from toddlers to children aged 12.
The ring was busted as part of a major Garda operation that spanned three counties and involved local officers and detectives from a unit specializing in tackling child abuse and domestic crime.
According to a report in Independent.ie, a senior gardai officials confirmed that the raids and arrests were the culmination of an investigation that had been underway since early last year.
Officials further described the details that emerged about the sex abuse and exploitation of the young victims as "horrific.”
According to investigators, the abusers appeared to have been operating as part of an organized sex ring and were known to each other.
The raids were carried out in Limerick, Cork and Tipperary and concluded on Monday.
Following the operation, officials contacted child care services and care agencies.
Those arrested are being held at the Garda stations in Limerick, Cork and Clare under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.
Irish Antifa are led by a convicted paedophile. Be wary of them. Keep kids away says Hermann Kelly of The Irish Freedom Party.
So the founder and leader of Antifa in Ireland is a convicted paedophile.
Former civil servant Pat Corcoran pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2013 of having over 7,000 images and 23 videos of sexually abused children on his computer stated in this Irish Independent article. He also pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography images in 87 A4 brown envelopes at his former home.
Even Indymedia of which he was chief editor in what was supposed to be a coop, kicked him out on hearing this. Indymedia statement>
But Antifa needed his back for his organisational skills and he is now head of the Antifa fold again. Read the Kilkenny Journal article.
Corcoran was many times seen out canvassing for Abortion on Demand in Dublin city centre. He is also returned to the various lefty campaigns for more refugees. http://www.youthdefence.ie/latest-news/prominent-choice-ireland-abortion-activist-convicted-for-child-pornography/
In one of the photos he is standing beside Trotskyite ‘People before Profit’ TD Richard Boyd-Barrett. PBP have tried a few times to ring up hotels to bully them into cancelling Irish Freedom Party events around the country.
Anyway as Antifa in Ireland were started and again led by a convicted paedophile we believe they should change their name to Pantifa. We also suggest a new logo – see below.
Pantifa hate freedom of speech and must not be allowed to shout people down or cancel the meetings of a liberal democratic party such as Irish Freedom Party.
Paedophile Matthew Horan – who groomed 9 and 11-year-old girls through social networking sites – is a loner, who never worked in the near decade since he did his Leaving Certificate.
His family home was attacked shortly after midnight on Monday and, according to a family friend, Horan’s father and brother do not want to be associated with him.
The 26-year-old, from west Dublin, was sentenced to a nine-and-a-halfyear prison sentence, for exploiting children and possessing depraved child pornography.
Matthew Horan.
His sentence has the last two years suspended, and with standard remission of 25 per cent, Horan will be out of prison in just over five years and seven months. He has begun his term in a special wing, G3, reserved for sex fiends at the Midlands prison, where he was transferred two months ago while on remand ahead of his trial.
It is a designated area for sex offenders where they are protected from the general prison population.
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Other high-profile inmates on the landhim ing include Eric Eoin Marques – the Ing include Eric Eoin Marques – the Irish man accused by the FBI of being the world’s largest child pornographer.
Marques, 32, from Mountjoy Square in Dublin, has been involved in a four-year legal battle to prevent his extradition to America where he faces a prison sentence of between 24 to 100 years for facilitating child pornography by providing hosting services on the dark web.
A source revealed: ‘Horan is a high-profile prisoner so you would expect him to serve his time in Arbour Hill.
‘But there’s a waiting list for Arbour Hill.
‘He’s been on the G3 landing since November and that’s a protection landing for sex offenders.
He’ll be there for the foreseeable future.’ It is a future nobody expected for the young man, but people who know his family have always remarked on how he was very antisocial.
During last week’s court hearings, Horan was portrayed as a loner with autism.
The court was told that his mother Santina died when he was just three years old and, as result of losing his young wife, Matthew’s stock controller father Paul was left adrift.
A family friend recalled yesterday: ‘I’ve known him since he was a young kid and he was very, very quiet.
‘Even as a kid he was antisocial. You’d never see a group of people hanging around with him, he didn’t play sports and I don’t ever remember having birthday parties. He never worked. He did his Leaving Cert and that was it… that was when he got into the internet and the slippery slope.’ Nobody was at home at the freshly painted ivy-clad two-storey house in St John’s Crescent, Clondalkin.
Indeed the only clue that all is not as it should be at this neat home is the still-fractured glass on the front door from last Monday night’s vigilante-style attack.
It happened after midnight on Monday, and nobody has been seen at the house since.
The pal explained: ‘This is just horrible, horrible and everyone is in total shock.
‘When I heard about this first last year I couldn’t believe it. His father and brother are really shocked as well. His dad’s nerves are gone over the whole thing. His father and brother are in total shock. They didn’t go to the court because they want to remain anonymous. I think someone attacking their home is bang out of order.’ Last week Dublin Circuit Court was told that a forensic examination of Matthew Horan’s computer uncovered recorded Skype calls between him and two nine-yearold girls, both individually and together. One of the girls had bought her mobile phone with her Holy Communion money so she could look at cartoons, dancing and singing. But recordings, seized by gardai during two raids on Horan’s home in Clondalkin, showed footage of this girl and a second girl, engaging in graphic sex acts. The court was also told Horan had sexually explicit text conversations with these girls and during these chats nude photos were exchanged. Meanwhile, an 11-year-old girl told how she repeatedly told Horan she would kill herself as he threatened to post nude photos of her on the internet if she did not provide him with even more graphic photos of herself.
Gardai, led by Detective Superintendent Declan Daly, also discovered thousands of images and videos of child porn and some of those featured in these photos and videos were babies.
Meanwhile, detectives are likely to bring further charges against Horan. And they’re also investigating a second man who fantasised with Horan about abusing his own young daughter.
These revelations about Horan’s depravity have devastated and sickened his family who continue to live in Clondalkin.
A new Memorandum of Understanding to ensure information on sex offenders who plan to travel between the UK and Ireland are shared between the relevant police forces was signed today in Belfast by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker and Michael McDowell,Tánaisteand Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
In the UK and Ireland all offenders who are on the sex offenders register must inform the police of where and when they intend to travel abroad if it is over a certain length of time.
Today's agreement - the first of its type in the world - means that police will impart this information for all sex offenders who plan to travel between the two states.
Home Office Minister, Vernon Coaker said "The UK Government is committed to protecting the public and ensuring the effective management of the most dangerous offenders is a key part of our agenda.
There are already high levels of cooperation between UK and Irish police forces and the police frequently pass on relevant information when an offender plans to travel abroad. This memorandum sets out an important precedent so that the police will always know when a convicted sex offender is travelling between the two countries.
The UK and Ireland have some of the most sophisticated systems in the world for monitoring dangerous offenders in the community. We are continuing to work on similar agreements between us and other countries but they will need to develop their systems further for this to become a reality.
Today's agreement is an important step forward and demonstrates the commitment between us and Ireland to work together to monitor and supervise sex offenders, investigate crimes and ensure the public are protected."
The Tánaiste Michael McDowell said "This Memorandum of Understanding demonstrates the determination of the Irish Government to put arrangements in place to ensure that the whereabouts of registered sex offenders in the UK and Ireland are known to the police, even when they leave their own country.
While the Garda Síochána and UK police forces have been exchanging this information for some time, this Memorandum of Understanding will put arrangements on a formal footing.
I am confident that our police forces will use this Memorandum to ensure the safety of people in our countries."
Northern Ireland's Criminal justice Minister, David Hanson MP said "It is appropriate that the signing takes place in Northern Ireland given the uniqueness of the land border and its potential for exploitation by those wishing to evade the law.
The sharing of information on sex offenders will ensure that police forces notify colleagues in other jurisdictions, promptly and effectively and as a matter of course, when they are aware that a convicted sex offender who is subject to notification requirements is planning to travel to another jurisdiction.
The signing of the memorandum also gives a clear signal to those who would attempt to exploit national boundaries that both Governments speak with one voice .There is to be no hiding place for those who have offended in this way and seek to do so again by travelling between jurisdictions and flouting the law. This is what the memorandum of understanding is all about."
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relates to information about everyone travelling between Ireland and the UK who is subject to sex offender notification requirements in their own jurisdiction. Its purpose is to ensure that information will be shared between police forces to protect the public from the risks presented by sex offenders and in the investigation of serious sexual offences. It covers any information necessary to achieve these purposes.
The MoU is part of the work undertaken following the Intergovernmental Agreement on North/South Co-operation on Criminal Justice Matters signed on behalf of the Irish and British Governments in July 2005. Under the Agreement, a Registered Sex Offender Advisory Group has been established consisting of representatives of An Garda Síochána, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Northern Ireland Office. As part of its work, this Group evaluates the potential for sharing information, examining the registration criteria in both jurisdictions for sex offenders and identifying areas for further co-operation. The MoU will help in protecting the public from the risks presented by sex offenders.
Senior Government official arrested and questioned on suspicion of sharing sick child abuse images in a paedophile ring, how many more secret Perverted Rings are active, and protected in places of Power?/
The man was arrested outside his Dublin home yesterday morning and his home was previously searched in 2015 for the distribution of child porn
A SENIOR Government official has been questioned on suspicion of sharing horrific images in a paedophile ring.
The man, who holds a high-ranking position in a busy department, was arrested at his plush home outside Dublin yesterday morning.
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The man was arrested last nightCredit: Getty – Contributor
He was taken to a Garda station in the capital where last night he was still being quizzed in connection with the possession and distribution of thousands of sickening images of kids being abused.
Computer and other electronic equipment have also been seized as part of the huge probe run by the Garda National Protective Services Bureau and local detectives.
The Irish Sun can reveal that the suspect’s house was previously searched in 2015 by gardai investigating the suspected distribution of pornographic images featuring children.
A source said: “This man is from a very good background and holds a top position at a Government department which carries a lot of responsibility.
“The arrest shows that people from all walks of life have been suspected of involvement in this awful crime.”
The arrest is the first since Operation Ketch was launched in February to target perverts swapping vile photos and videos within secret networks.
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Irish ex MP, Patrick Sarsfield Donegan unmasked as Child Sexual Abuser, Research has informed me of a Paedophile Ring operating from Belfast, Dublin, to Cork for decades? This below is from Fox Tales.
Irish ex MP, Patrick Sarsfield Donegan unmasked as Child Sexual Abuser
At the turn of the millenium in Eire, there was a case of child sexual abuse by a member of Parliament that had uncanny…
At the turn of the millenium in Eire, there was a case of child sexual abuse by a member of Parliament that had uncanny parallels two decades later with the Greville Janner case in England.
He has been identified in 2015 through detective work by Shame of Ireland. Their webpage is here [9] and twitter @ShameOfIreland [10]. They unmasked him by following clues in newspaper articles in which he was not named, but various details were described. This can be read on their post and comments here [2a].
Their work leaves no doubt that the child abuser was Patrick Sarsfield Donegan, but this is perhaps the first time he has been named. He was a TD, but is now dead. [A Teachta Dála (TD) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament, equivalent to an MP.]
The corporate media have not followed up this good detective work, reluctant it seems to expose the crimes of the supposed democratic representatives of the people. This is one reason for the continuing demise of these papers. Maybe one newspaper will step forward, expose the ex TD for the sake of truth and the victims, and credit Shame of Ireland for their work. If not it is up to peoples social media to spread the truth. Please start blogging and / or spreading the truth. Each individual counts.
Patrick Sarsfield Donegan
Not charged until 40 years after offending
Committed many offences
TD (Irish MP)
Eventually Director of Public Prosecutions recommended prosecution
Evaded prosecution on grounds of ill health, some thought it was illness of convenience
Died not long afterwards
Never faced trial
All of the above are similar to Greville Janner in England.
Donegan was accused of 70 sex attacks on 5 schoolchildren dating back to the 1950’s. One woman said the abuse started when she was just six-years-old and lasted for eight years. Her accusations were supported by four other women who all said the former politician abused them as young girls. The five women came forward to Gardai in 1997. [2a] At least some of the attacks were meant to have happened in a school [6], and one child states that she told a nun of the attacks [2a]
The Director of Public Prosecutions decided to go ahead with the prosecution [6]
Donegan got High Court permission in 1998 to challenge proceedings, claiming it was unfair to continue the proceedings having regard to delay in making complaints, his age, the availability of witnesses and material evidence, the generalised nature of the allegations and previous adverse media publicity.
In Mar 2000 Donegan went to High Court seeking an order restraining the DPP from further proceeding with the criminal prosecution. However the proceedings were struck out, as there was no determination to be made as the trial could not proceed due to his age and deteriorating mental condition. The DPP formally withdrew its prosecution 2 months later [6].
This denied his victims justice in the justice system but does not stop the truth.
His whole career will now have to be reassessed in light of this revelation.
Hopefully others will come forward with their stories. It is unlikely this abuse stopped at 5 victims. Shame of Ireland webpage is here [9] and twitter @ShameOfIreland [10].
Timeline
1923 Oct 29 Patrick Sarsfield “Paddy” Donegan born [1]
Educated at Christian Brothers school Drogheda, County Leith [1]
c.1942 [3] Vincentian Castleknock College, County Dublin [1]
1950’s Donegan abused children probably girls, in school [6] probably with nuns, near borders 5 girls and 70 offences. One girl claimed she was abused from ages 6 to 14 [2a]
1954 Elected for first time as Fine Gael TD (Member of Parliament equivalent) [1]
1998 Donegan received High Court permission to challenge proceedings, claiming it was unfair to continue the proceedings having regard to delay in making complaints, his age, the availability of witnesses and material evidence, the generalised nature of the allegations and previous adverse media publicity [6]
2000 Mar 30 High Court Mr Justice Kelly. A former politician, who was seeking an order restraining the DPP from further proceeding with the criminal prosecution. The DPP is not to proceed with the prosecution of a former senior politician on 70 charges of indecent assault of five children following expert medical advice that the man is unfit to stand trial due to his age and illness [6]
2000 Mar 31 Irish Times [6]Former politician `not fit to stand trial’ on child abuse charges
The DPP is not to proceed with the prosecution of a former senior politician on 70 charges of indecent assault of five children following expert medical advice that the man is unfit to stand trial due to his age and illness, the High Court was told yesterday.
Mr Justice Kelly struck out proceedings brought by the former politician, who was seeking an order restraining the DPP from further proceeding with the criminal prosecution, which was due to be heard in the Circuit Criminal Court.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in national politics for more than two decades, ail and Seanad.
Five persons made allegations of indecent assault against him. The complainants are understood to be adults who claimed they were abused by the man when they were children. Some of the allegations date back more than 30 years and are alleged to have occurred in a school.
2000 May 23 Cavan Circuit Criminal Court [7] The State withdrew the charges
2000 May 24 Irish Times [7]Sexual assault charges withdrawn
2000 May 24 Mirror [2a][2] Ex Politician Unfit for Trial; Child sex abuse case is dropped. SEVENTY child sex charges were dropped because the State decided he was unfit to stand trial. The accused’s barrister Paddy McAntee revealed the DPP had agreed to drop the case based on the individual’s “deteriorating mental condition”. A victim said “I see this man out and about regularly, he is no more senile than I am. “All I wanted was a chance to face him in court and tell him what he had done to me.”
Patrick Sarsfield “Paddy” Donegan (29 October 1923–26 November 2000) was an Irish Fine Gael politician.[1]
He was educated at a Christian Brothers School in Drogheda, County Louth and at the Vincentian Castleknock College, County Dublin. Donegan was first elected as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency at the 1954 general election.[2] He lost his seat at the 1957 general election but was elected to Seanad Éireann by the Agricultural Panel. He regain his Dáil seat at the 1961 general election. In the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition government which took power after the 1973 general election Donegan was appointed as Minister for Defence.
In October 1976 Donegan made a controversial speech on an official visit to the opening of new kitchen facilities in an army barracks at Mullingar. He described as a “thundering disgrace” President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh’s refusal to sign the Emergency Powers Act, 1976, instead using his powers under Article 26 of the Constitution to refer it to the Supreme Court.[3] The Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, refused Donegan’s resignation, and instead Ó Dálaigh resigned as President of Ireland. The whole episode badly damaged the government’s reputation.
In 1976 Donegan became Minister for Lands, and in 1977 he served briefly as Minister for Fisheries. Donegan retired from politics at the 1981 general election, and died in 2000. He was buried in his home town of Monasterboice.
SEVENTY child sex charges against a former senior politician were dropped yesterday because the State decided he was unfit to stand trial.
The offences were formally dropped two months after the High Court ruling based on his age and ill health.
Yesterday, the accused’s barrister Paddy McAntee revealed the DPP had agreed to drop the case based on the individual’s “deteriorating mental condition”.
The decision to rule out a trial two months ago was slammed at the time by one of the man’s alleged victims. The now middle-aged woman described the decision as a “Pinochet-style” let-off. She told the Irish Mirror: “This is very distressing. “I see this man out and about regularly, he is no more senile than I am. “All I wanted was a chance to face him in court and tell him what he had done to me.”
The woman claims she suffered years of trauma since the abuse which she said started when she was just six-years-old and lasted for eight years. Her accusations were supported by four other women who all said the former politician abused them as young girls.
The woman revealed that she had considered taking a civil action against the former public figure, but could not afford to do so. She said: “I do not have the money to go to court myself. “This was not about money for me or the other women who came forward. “I only wanted to have my day in court.”
The man had been accused of 70 sex attacks on five schoolchildren in the border area. He was charged after a Garda investigation into the abuse allegations, some of which date back 50 years. The allegations were surrounded by a wall of secrecy for more than 40 years until five women came forward to Gardai in 1997.
The alleged victim said: “I tried to tell people at the time, but no one wanted to know. “I told a nun and I eventually told my mother, but it was a different time and people could not imagine that such a well-respected man, a politician, could do such a thing. “He used to give me sweets after the abuse, which was the most serious type of abuse, and warn me not to tell my parents about what happened.”
A file was forwarded to the DPP who decided to take a prosecution against the man. The accused then lodged a legal appeal with the High Court in a bid to block the criminal proceedings against him.
His lawyers claimed it would be unfair to place him on trial because of his age, the availability of evidence and witnesses and adverse publicity in the media. However, an affidavit on behalf of the DPP yesterday stated that the prosecution would not be proceeding in the light of a psychologist’s report into the man’s mental condition.
[4] Afloat http://www.afloat.ie/blogs/sailing-saturday-with-wm-nixon/item/27583-a-new-tall-ship-for-ireland?-its-back-to-the-future Unfortunately for the respectability of the maritime movement in Ireland, our supporters in the higher echelons of politics have often tended to be from the colourful end of the political spectrum, whatever about their placing in the left-right continuum. Thus it was that, at mid-morning on St Patrick’s Day 1973, I got an ebullient phone call and an immediate announcement, without the caller saying who he was. “Winkie” he bellowed, “That ship is going to be built. I’ll make sure of it. I’ve just made a ministerial decision”. It emerged that it was our very own new Minister for Defence, Patrick Sarsfield Donegan TD.
The DPP is not to proceed with the prosecution of a former senior politician on 70 charges of indecent assault of five children following expert medical advice that the man is unfit to stand trial due to his age and illness, the High Court was told yesterday.
Mr Justice Kelly struck out proceedings brought by the former politician, who was seeking an order restraining the DPP from further proceeding with the criminal prosecution, which was due to be heard in the Circuit Criminal Court.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in national politics for more than two decades. ail and Seanad.
Five persons made allegations of indecent assault against him. The complainants are understood to be adults who claimed they were abused by the man when they were children. Some of the allegations date back more than 30 years and are alleged to have occurred in a school.
A file had been sent to the DPP three years ago and he had decided that the elderly man should be prosecuted. He faced 70 charges of child sexual abuse.
The former politician got High Court permission two years ago to challenge the intended criminal proceedings, claiming it was unfair to continue the proceedings having regard to delay in making complaints, his age, the availability of witnesses and material evidence, the generalised nature of the allegations and previous adverse media publicity.
Yesterday Mr Patrick MacEntee SC, for the man, told Mr Justice Kelly the State had accepted there was no issue to be determined. Expert advice was that the man was not fit to face trial through age and illness, and in those circumstances the DPP had agreed to enter a nolle prose-qui in the Circuit Criminal Court.
An affidavit on behalf of the DPP stated that, in the light of a psychologist’s report, the DPP had decided the former politician was not in a position to stand trial due to his deteriorating mental condition. The prosecution would not be pursued.
The State yesterday withdrew 70 charges of sexual assault against a former politician. The High Court was told in March that the DPP would not be proceeding with the prosecution following medical advice that the man was unfit to stand trial because of his age and illness. At Cavan Circuit Criminal Court yesterday, the State withdrew the charges.
[L] Voicing CSA website — http://voicingcsa.uk/ helps arrange survivors meetings in your area. Voicing CSA supports the IICSA and VSCP and works to help adult survivors of child sexual abuse find their voice
the truth will out, the truth will shout, the truth will set us free
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” — Edmund Burke
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” Charles Peguy
