Makes a change from the usual Saudi style justice where the female victim is often the one being convicted of "adultery"....
How did the Social Workers, neighbours, the local Gardai, Teachers, local Publican....how did none of them have an inkling what was going on.
This was serious serious crimes carried out over 18 years on 4 different people - surely people had to know something was not right. And it's not like it happened 40 or 50 years ago.
There's an awful lot more to be incovered here
Massive +1 to that! But you'd better shut it. Don't you know that the Saudis are 'made' irrespective of what atrocities they choose to inflict on human beings within their borders?
Bit like the israelis but with pajamas on.
A Guard friend of mine investigated a case a few years back where a man was sexually abusing his daughters. One of the victims told the guards that at least 2 different neighbours knew about the abuse. When interviewed one of the neighbours said 'that family was always a bit weird - sure the daughters were LETTING their father have sex with them'.
The only real beneficiaries of having a death penalty are the lawyers who spend 20 years filing appeals.
Nice sweeping generalisation there, completely ignoring the fact that most of those on death row cannot afford to pay for a pencil, never mind a lawyer, and thus many appeals are handled pro bono.
Indeed. Once met a lawyer in the States who dealt with death penalty cases. He left a huge firm in Washington, didn't have two cents to his name but I have never heard anyone speak so passionately about their work before. Death Penalty cases are not money making cases in the US.
I could understand this rationality if the lawyer honestly thought the prisoner was innocent, but if not, then there are more pertinent cases out there IMO (such as trying to help the victims for example). Having said that though, it is pro bono.
Nice sweeping generalisation there, completely ignoring the fact that most of those on death row cannot afford to pay for a pencil, never mind a lawyer, and thus many appeals are handled pro bono.
No Garda should be revealing details of sensitive cases like this (or any cases, tbh) to their friends.
Why not? He didnt reveal when it was, where it was, or who it was. It was a remark made in a conversation about why more people dont report it where they suspect a child is being abused. You know that Guards are human too and will talk about work with their friends sometimes?
Because it is a horrendous breach of confidentiality. How many cases involved a man abusing his daughters occured in the area that where that Garda was posted at the time of his posting? Probably one - or at best a very small number. It wouldn't take a genius to put together the Garda's leaked information with newspaper reports to work out who his comment relates to.
How is it a 'horrendous breach of confidentiality'? You know exactly as much about it now as I do. I have no idea where it happened or when it happened. He has been posted all over in the country in a long career. If you wish to assign that level of paranoia to a comment that reveals nothing more than what you have read here - then that is your choice.
Strange - you seemed to have a rough idea of the timing of the incident in your original post.
.....a few years back....
Can you show me where I had a rough idea of timing please? Ive re-quoted the timing element of my post for you below.
You've just answered your own question there.
Can you show me where I had a rough idea of timing please? Ive re-quoted the timing element of my post for you below.
You've just answered your own question there.