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A CHARITY DEDICATED to helping those harmed by sexual abuse has said that sex offender treatment is central to child protection.
Launching its annual report for 2011, One in Four said providing treatment for those who sexually harm children is essential if the cycle of abuse is to be broken.
“Research consistently shows that effective treatment programmes reduce the risk of reoffending yet most sex offenders in Ireland do not have access to treatment,” said executive director Maeve Lewis.
“We also know that many sex offenders will continue to abuse throughout their lives until they are caught. While good programmes are available in prison, fewer than five per cent of sex offenders will ever be convicted of their crimes. There is a huge need for treatment in the community.”
Last year, One in Four provided treatment to 28 sex offenders, most of whom had abused children in their own families.
Throughout 2011, 933 people and 39 families received counselling or assistance through One in Four’s advocacy programmes. While some have been sexually abused within the Catholic church, the majority have been harmed in their own families or communities.
“Sadly, the criminal justice systems continue to fail them,” said Lewis. “In the tiny minority of cases that make it to a criminal trial – just 20 One in Four clients last year – victims consistently describe the process as humiliating, abusive and traumatic.
“One in four Irish people experience sexual violence. It is simply not acceptable that so many of them are denied a legal remedy simply because an archaic criminal justice system cannot address the complexities of sexual crime.”
During the launch, Lewis also called for a Yes vote in the upcoming Children’s Rights Referendum.
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Lets start the PR campaign for increased premiums for this year. Insurance industry do you job and stop moaning.
Every time there’s a natural disaster somewhere around the world we’re asked to dig into our pockets and help out. While I’m not comparing this to the loss of life or devastation of some of these disasters to this series of storms I can’t help wondering if anyone around the world will give a damn about us or put their hands in their pockets for our communites wiped out by these storms. I doubt it. We’ll be left to fend for ourselves and raise more levies to pay for the repairs. No happy endings here.
Despite our current troubles, we aren’t a third world country.
No children will starve because of this storm.
Your comparing apples and oranges.
Actually I stressed that I wasn’t trying to compare our current troubles, as you choose to describe them, to anyone else’s. What I said was that when others had disasters far worse than what we’re currently experiencing we have consistently put our hands in our pockets to help them out, I’m simply ask for a little quid pro quo.
This need not necessarily come from those third world countries you describe but, just as we helped other countries on the other side of the world, there are plenty of wealthy countries on the other side of the planet who we have helped out in the past when they weren’t so well off.
I bet they are rubbing their hands together saying what ever we spend we will triple it next year by raising rates
Presumably all these premium increases will be reversed once the profit margins reach previous levels.
I thought insurance companies didn’t cover damage by acts or nature or acts of God?!
Can they prove that god exists, that it was an act of god? Tot so
I’m covered so, as an athiest.
If they’re going to claim it’s an act of God, then prove God exists.
You prove he exists iv things to do today il give ye a hand tomorrow
They can’t make up the cost because their too busy making up increase in premiums first.
This will be covered by the wet storm and flood peril operative on all standard home insurance policies.
They’ll pull some excuse out of their holes not to pay out for damages. Insurance companies are nothing but thiefs.
Like “sorry but we don’t cover flood damage cos you…… Em live on a fookin island” or something. Storm damaged roof recently wasn’t covered and excuse given was bad workmanship when the house was built…… 12 years ago, if the workmanship was that bad surely one of the storms over the last 12 years would have exposed it.
What gets me is if you have a claim they increase your insurance on renewal,but if you have no claim during the term of your policy they don’t do likewise and decrease it,no it always goes up for some reason or another,then they take away flood cover,now this is like 50%,of your policy,now does your policy go down 50%,no it dissent,its time to tink outside the box on other ways of protecting your property like some kind of co,op and get rid of these insurance parasites.
The majority of affected properties damaged will not be covered for flooding due to the exclusions in their policies as all the areas are have flooded before and once their is a claim for flood in the area all properties in the area are designated as a flood area. So all they will pay for is a few slates
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