Incompetence and corruption rewarded - Nóirín O'Sullivan appointed to UN role

KaneToad wrote: »

Appearing before the Tribunal last year a local social worker described how she had created the report about the alleged incident of sexual abuse involving McCabe and amalgamated two separate and unrelated incidents into a single report. Gardaí, the tribunal was told, hadn’t responded to queries as to whether the allegations were the ones that had been investigated years earlier.

The social worker said she only realised two weeks before the tribunal began that she had made a “catastrophic” mistake by making the files – no-one had contacted her after Tusla was alerted to the error in May 2014.

I wonder is this social worker still in a job? If this is true, this is indeed a catastrophic error and gross incompetence. Frightening to think anyone's life could be destroyed in this manner.

I've read into this a bit since I last posted. It now looks to me that the original woman accusing McCabe (Ms D) of which he was cleared by the DPP, got counselling from Laura Brophy, who then cut and pasted another more serious accusation from a different woman (Ms Y) to a different man into his file. So it does look like a genuine mistake. A horrendous mistake. How many more mistakes like this have been made?

https://www.thejournal.ie/disclosures-tribunal-timeline-4081567-Jun2018/

The whole Ms D case seems to be either
a. McCabe genuinely abused her in some way and got away with it or
b. Ms D suffers from severe mental illness and paranoia centred around McCabe.

She seems particularly determined in her convictions. Interesting is she strenuously denied ever making the claims listed in the file. If she was just out to get McCabe, why would she be so honest? What would be really interesting is if Ms D came forward and told her story.

She was cleared by the investigation- fair play to her