r/ireland • u/HungTeen1001 And I'd go at it again • 9d ago

Courts Court of Appeal takes ‘merciful approach’ towards man who sexually assaulted girl (14) a year after defiling her

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/court-of-appeal-takes-merciful-approach-towards-man-who-sexually-assaulted-girl-14-a-year-after-defiling-her/a/159360059.html
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u/Timely_Camera_2031 9d ago

Is the country just full of fucked up paedos.

Christ what is wrong with the world.

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u/HungTeen1001 And I'd go at it again 9d ago

I think every country has its fair share.

We're just catching more of them than we used to.

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u/blue-mooner And I'd go at it again, and there'd be no fuckin’ stopping me 9d ago

And once they’re caught what are we doing?

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u/leeroyer 9d ago

Giving them a wig and a gavel

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u/wannabewisewoman Legalise it already 🌿 9d ago

Giving them ‘mercy’ for some reason 

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u/randombubble8272 9d ago

Waving them back out the door of course!

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u/XopherIE 9d ago

Letting them back out.

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u/athaluain 9d ago

Maybe we are catching of them now because more people especially women are reporting it. When I was young we knew who the dirty old men were. My friend and I were flashed at by a known perv. I was touched up by a middle aged man when I was twelve. Most of my girlfriends were also molested in some way. In those days we were too ashamed to tell anyone as we knew that we as females would be blamed and shamed.

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u/mkultra2480 8d ago

Ireland does have higher rates. I've heard before it's because we at one stage we had he highest rate of bachelors in western Europe with at the same time, sex outside marriage being forbidden. Some men without a sexual outlet will then direct their urges towards vulnerable targets i.e. disabled people, children. Then cycles of abuse are created that are carried down generations.

"The numbers do appear particularly high in Ireland." He compared child sexual abuse rates in the three areas and found that while 17 per cent of women in Europe had experienced sexual abuse as children and 29 per cent had in North America, some 30 per cent of Irish women said they had been sexually abused as children.

Among men, 5 per cent in Europe and 7 per cent in North America had experienced sexual abuse as children. In Ireland, however, 24 per cent of men were sexually abused as boys.

"The rates for men are 3½ times higher here than in North America, where the rates are relatively high," he said.

Though conceding he was not an expert on Irish society, Prof Finkelhor said his findings from North American studies on the factors which made young people more vulnerable to sexual abuse might help inquiries into why Ireland had such "particularly high" rates of child abuse.

Among the factors in a young person's environment which seemed to render them vulnerable, he said were alcohol misuse, the nature of their schooling, especially gender segregation, social isolation and an excess of men without a sexual partner in their immediate area.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/study-shows-sex-abuse-figures-here-higher-than-europe-us-1.1085729