Special needs boy beaten by gardai tried to 'kill himself'

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Todays Irish Independent


I didn't think the guards were allowed to beat boys anymore. It doesn't seem like the doctor was present for it either. My understanding always was that there had to be a doctor present during a beating.

A RETIRED doctor has claimed a special needs boy who was stripped naked and whipped in garda custody later tried to take his own life.


Dr Richard O'Flaherty shocked an Oireachtas Justice Committee hearing when he told members of the horrors he encountered during the course of his work as an on-call GP for garda stations.

However, during his opening statement, he was stopped from telling the full story of a 17-year-old disabled boy who was arrested after he took his father's car without permission.

The Irish Independent has obtained a copy of Dr O'Flaherty's statement, which was given to committee members before his appearance yesterday.

The statement includes shocking allegations, including:

* A young mother recovering from cervical cancer was held in custody for 12 hours.

* A senior officer asked him to change his report on an assault by a garda on a man in custody.

* A woman went into a diabetic coma after she was refused medical attention.

Dr O'Flaherty is a member of victims' support group Justice4all, which the Sunday Independent revealed forwarded 27 signed affidavits of potentially serious complaints to Taoiseach Enda Kenny earlier this year.

Justice Committee chairman David Stanton intervened during the proceedings to ask the doctor to stick to the main purpose of the hearing, which was to put forward recommendations on changes to the Garda Siochana Act.

But Independent TD Finian McGrath said Dr O'Flaherty should be allowed to continue so the committee could hear "human stories".

In his statement, Dr O'Flaherty, who practised as a GP for 40 years, said the disabled youngster was stripped of his "pants and underpants" and left naked in a holding cell.

He alleges the boy told him both male and female gardai laughed as he was whipped with his belt buckle. The doctor claims the boy's father found him the day he was released with a rope and believed he was going to end his life.

Dr O'Flaherty also alleges he was told he would "regret" not altering a medical report on an examination of a man who was beaten up by a garda while in custody.

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Dr Richard O'Flaherty shocked an Oireachtas Justice Committee hearing when he told members of the horrors he encountered during the course of his work as an on-call GP for garda stations.

Sort your pasting out OP.

Wazdakka

..Link to article Here..

Joe Duffy..

Should report it to the......oh wait.

PirateShampoo

Anymore?

They where never aloud to do it in the first place.

Only difference is that they could get away with it a few years ago.

GerB40

toughapple wrote: »

Todays Irish Independent


I didn't think the guards were allowed to beat boys anymore. It doesn't seem like the doctor was present for it either. My understanding always was that there had to be a doctor present during a beating.

A RETIRED doctor has claimed a special needs boy who was stripped naked and whipped in garda custody later tried to take his own life.


Dr Richard O'Flaherty shocked an Oireachtas Justice Committee hearing when he told members of the horrors he encountered during the course of his work as an on-call GP for garda stations.

However, during his opening statement, he was stopped from telling the full story of a 17-year-old disabled boy who was arrested after he took his father's car without permission.

The Irish Independent has obtained a copy of Dr O'Flaherty's statement, which was given to committee members before his appearance yesterday.

The statement includes shocking allegations, including:

* A young mother recovering from cervical cancer was held in custody for 12 hours.

* A senior officer asked him to change his report on an assault by a garda on a man in custody.

* A woman went into a diabetic coma after she was refused medical attention.

Dr O'Flaherty is a member of victims' support group Justice4all, which the Sunday Independent revealed forwarded 27 signed affidavits of potentially serious complaints to Taoiseach Enda Kenny earlier this year.

Justice Committee chairman David Stanton intervened during the proceedings to ask the doctor to stick to the main purpose of the hearing, which was to put forward recommendations on changes to the Garda Siochana Act.

But Independent TD Finian McGrath said Dr O'Flaherty should be allowed to continue so the committee could hear "human stories".

In his statement, Dr O'Flaherty, who practised as a GP for 40 years, said the disabled youngster was stripped of his "pants and underpants" and left naked in a holding cell.

He alleges the boy told him both male and female gardai laughed as he was whipped with his belt buckle. The doctor claims the boy's father found him the day he was released with a rope and believed he was going to end his life.

Dr O'Flaherty also alleges he was told he would "regret" not altering a medical report on an examination of a man who was beaten up by a garda while in custody.

This is fúcking barbaric.. I've always respected the Gardaí but these recent revelations have proven that they're just as corrupt as the politicians.

JONJO THE MISER

Corrupt from the top down, i have lost all respect for the Guards.

Ruu

Sorry this isn't a news dump site. You basically copied and pasted with no opinion of your own.