Did you grow up with an imprisoned father? Psychological research in this area.

SenanTH — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:08:56 +0000

A small research team in Trinity College Dublin is exploring the experience of growing up with an imprisoned father, from the male perspective. We're in the last phases of recruitment and would love to hear from people who have had this experience. This research is being completed as part of my doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with the hope that it will be published too. Your contribution is important, as it will add to the growing literature on the rippling effects of imprisonment. I'd love to hear from anyone who is interested, you can contact me at tuohyhas@tcd.ie. I've included an image outlining the study details.

Irish Law: Taking it easy on child sex offenders!

Brightest_Nite — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:56:53 +0000

A few months back RTE's primetime done a shocking expose into the escalating world problem of child sexual abuse. Maybe some of you seen it. Unfortunately it is no longer available on the RTE player, but if you want to watch it, my best advice is to get in contact with RTE who may distribute you a copy. Here is a small snippet of information regarding this shocking progamme:

http://www.rte.ie/about/pressreleases/2010/0518/figurespti180510.html

Monday, 31st May, the final programme in the current series, Prime Time Investigates: Crimes Against Children - Evil Online, traces the online criminals who share images of child rape and abuse. Hundreds of thousands of child abuse images are created and circulated across the world and Edel McAllister reveals the alarming number of Irish people who take part in this evil practice and shows how widespread the downloading and sharing of child pornography is in this country. It also exposes the predators online who seek out children and pre-teens hoping to seduce them into sex.

During the programme, prime time uncovered and revealed all the locations of where these predatory paedophiles dwell. The information gathered was submitted to the An Garda Siochana. The An Garda Siochana was unavailable for comment, but stated that they would be abiding by existing laws.
In short nothing was done about it. Does this surprise you? It does not surprise me, particurarly when you examine the Irish Judical system's leniency in regards to these evil persons.

Here is Irish Law Vs Fedaral Law. All Federal resources are located here. According to federal Law there is a minimum mandatory sentence of 5 years and up to a maximum of life imprisonment.

FEDERAL LAW
The following Federal resources are taken from here.
http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/news.htm

"Anthony Quinn Steward pleaded guilty on Mar. 30, 2010, to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider".

"Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on September 8, 2010, DAVID MONFRE, age 31, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, to 96 months imprisonment to be followed by supervised release".
for life. MONFRE was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.".

LAS VEGAS - "A convicted sex offender who lived in North Las Vegas and was found
guilty in May of possessing and transmitting images and movies of child pornography over theInternet, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, announced Daniel G. Bogden, UnitedStates Attorney for the District of Nevada".

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - "TONY TEMPLET, 45, of Gretna, Louisiana, was entenced today in federal court before U. S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to ten (10)years (120 months) in prison for receipt of child pornography, announced U. S.Attorney Jim Letten".

There are many more such cases.

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IRISH LAW
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/11_12/2006_12_20_Melia_HeadmasterGuilty.htm

"A former primary school principal found in possession of 10,000 images of children as young as six having sex, has received a two-and-a-half year suspended jail sentence".

http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/1015/childporn.html

"A 38-year-old former priest has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to the possession of child pornography".

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0326/obrienk.html

"A 44-year-old carpenter from Drogheda has been given a three-year suspended sentence at Galway Circuit Court for possession of child pornography".

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1218/ocearbhaillm.html

"A former naval reserve officer and Eircom supervisor has been given a ten-month suspended sentence for the possession of 169 images of child pornography".

http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/1202/morphew.html

"A 63-year-old man who operated a children's fun-park in Co Wicklow has been sentenced to six months in prison for down-loading and viewing 1,200 images of children being sexually abused".

http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0207/ohallorank.html

"A 41-year-old former Garda Sergeant has been jailed for two years for soliciting a woman to find a child for him for sex and for possession of child pornography".

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0310/pornography.html

"A 41-year-old man who pleaded guilty to possessing 320 films and more than 2,800 images of child pornography has been given an 18-month suspended jail sentence".

To be honest, I could produce thousands of more similar cases.
Discuss: Why is Ireland so soft on predatory paedophiles and child sex offenders?

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Did you grow up with an imprisoned father? Psychological research in this area.

Irish Law: Taking it easy on child sex offenders!