Sentences with phrase «paedophile abuse»

This is not simply because his presence has become a reminder of the cover - up of paedophile abuse by priests, but also because it illustrates a continuing problem: that, after all this time, Cardinal Brady just doesn't get it.

This last assumption is worth some attention in passing: if you do internet searches for cases of paedophile abuse involving the Catholic clergy in continental Europe, for example, there is nothing remotely on the same scale.

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A former Irish president has revealed her youngest brother was «seriously, physically, sadistically» abused by a paedophile priest Fr Malachy Finnegan.

Allegations of sexual abuse in Australia were not taken seriously enough and too much sympathy was shown to paedophile priests according to a Catholic archbishop.

They were, for instance, similarly influenced by the 1970s «consensus» in England that one should not bring abused children or young persons before the courts as witnesses, and that paedophiles and pederasts could be «cured» by therapy.

He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.

I spoke to an investigating officer in Durham police to express my concern that there may have been a pattern of abuse and a paedophile ring operating for many years inside Portland prison but was told I had to talk to Dorset police.

Although anyone responsible for child abuse of any sort is treated with public opprobrium, the issue of «paedophiles» and the potential for their rehabilitation and subsequent re-introduction into society has attracted much controversy in the UK and elsewhere.

Geoffrey Dickens warned other campaigners against child sex abuse they could be targeted by «powerful people», years after he handed in information about an alleged Westminster paedophile ring.

On his web - site he repeatedly indicated that his main source for believing that there was a coverup of widespread abuse in order to protect «a ring» of paedophiles in the Thatcher cabinet, was sources from the Metroploitan Police, saying they wanted to pursue, (God knows who because Watson has never had the honesty to tell us), but were ordered by «superior officers» to drop their investigations.

The sexual abuse of children is one of the more sickening aspects of the society in which we live, and no one except the paedophile would wish to hinder the investigation of genuine cases.

7 a paedophile who sexually abused a six - year - old girl was set free by a judge who suggested he give his victim money to buy.

Gary Speed stayed paedophile coach Barry Bennell home but was too clever be victim abuse, his dad has suggested ex-wales.

Gary Speed stayed over at paedophile football coach Barry Bennell's home but was «too clever» to be a victim of abuse, his dad has suggested.

Previously Kevin Bacon has played a kidnapper (Trapped), a paedophile («Sleepers») and a rapist («Hollow Man»), but also a compromised policeman investigating statutory rape charges («Wild Things»), a man falsely suspected of rape and murder (In the Cut), and a homicide detective touched by horrific abuse in his childhood (Mystic River)-- and these past rôles, as well as the extraordinary intensity of Bacon's present performance, all play their part in shading the character of Walter so that he becomes suspended perfectly between the viewer's sympathies and suspicions.

Those acts prohibited by the criminal law of the Member State, focusing on «homosexual acts» made it clear that this provision in Article 10 (1)(d) was not drafted with respect to the protection needs of children, who are subject to abuse by paedophiles, where paedophilia is not a sexual identity, or orientation.