Once again, you make sense Eileen.
Only recently did I learn of a family in which during the previous generation in which a number of the daughters were sexually abused and raped (that's the clean version, but it was more depraved) and it only came to light after the mother divorced the man, but the daughters who are now in their 40s won't do anything about it now, they don't want to go to Court and see him deny it and feel like fools. No one wanted to believed them at the time, and the piece of shit whose now nearly in his 70s is free and going about his business, out for his few pints every night, handshakes and all, from people who know the story. I went to school with their kids and never knew anything about it.
We would be very naive, even more naive than I normally am, to believe that this is no longer happening. The cases that become public are only the tip of the iceberg. Back when those women were young, no one believed it, even in their teens when they went to report it to the Gardai, the Sgt now long since dead told them "ah sure did ya not enjoy it!" and walked off from the public office (it frightened me that I now know it shares so much with the Bartley case in 1997, unreported, in the High Court. The accused in this case was convicted of incest. However Justice Carney took the opportunity provided by the case to note that if a member of the Gardaí receives a credible complaint of [any] felony [now an "arrestable offence", one punishable with mat least five years in prison] they are obliged to investigate it.)
Ok, I'll try and switch off again now.
Originally Posted by Banjaxed
Once again, you make sense Eileen.
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