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This writing appeared on the walls in Dundalk after Adams was exposed as a Child Rapist
Sinn Fein Child ProtectionSinn Fein and the IRA have a long history in relation to the torture, murder, mutilation and rape of children. The IRA kidnapping, torture, murder and secret burial of school boy Columbia Mc Veigh in Monaghan in the early 1970s showed clearly that Sinn Fein and the IRA have more in common with the Moore’s murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. The body of Columbia Mc Veigh has never been found, although the IRA have admitted that they murdered and secretly buried the child in Monaghan. Paedophile activity and Sinn Fein have a very long association, Gerry Adams TD was fully aware that his father Gerry Adams Snr was a serial child rapist and it is known that he used his position in Sinn Fein/IRA to kidnap, rape and mutilate dozens of children in Belfast, yet, Gerry Adams TD afforded his father a full IRA-style funeral in order that the Adams Family dirty secrets would not be exposed.Children who had dared to complain about their abuse at the hands of the IRA in Belfast were shot in the legs or beaten within an inch of their life, on many occasions entire families were burned out of their houses when they identified Gerry Adams Snr as a child rapist.Liam Dominic Adams, brother of Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams TD is presently awaiting trial for the alleged rape of his 4 year old daughter. Gerry Adams TD has already been forced to admit that he knew about the alleged Rape since the 1980s and that he believed his niece Aine when she told him that Liam had Raped her over a number of years, beginning when she was four years old. However, Gerry Adams TD did not report the matter to the authorities and it was only in 2007 when Gerry Adams realised that Aine would no longer remain silent that he made a statement to the PSNI through his solicitor.Liam Adams was a senior member of both the IRA and Sinn Fein in Belfast and Dundalk, long after Gerry Adams TD knew about his brother’s alleged Rape of a child, Gerry Adams continued to promote Liam within the republican movement, giving Liam unquestioned access to children both in Belfast and Dundalk. Gerry Adams TD also concealed the fact that his father Gerry Adams Snr was a child rapist and then proceeded to give his father a full IRA funeral to further compound the hurt of those children raped by Gerry Adams Snr, Gerry Adams Snr was also an RUC informer.Child Rape and Sinn FeinAs the Cloyne Report was published 16/7/2011 one could not help but feel sick at the comments by some Sinn Fein politicians who seem to think that Sinn Fein have clean hands when it comes to the rape of children and the cover-ups of child rape in Ireland. Caoimhghin O’Caolain TD seemed detached from the reality of his party’s history with child rape, mutilation, torture and murder.In recent times Sinn Fein have tried desperately to cover-up the fact that many of their members have engaged in the rape and sexual abuse of children. This cover-up was heightened when Liam Dominic Adams, brother of Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams TD, was exposed as a child rapist by his daughter Aine Tyrrell. Gerry Adams said he believed his niece when she made the allegations in 1987. However, Liam Adams went onto become a prominent figure in Sinn Féin. As chairman of the Louth comhairle ceantair in 1996, he was the party's most senior official in the county and was given un-restricted to children in Dundalk. He canvassed with Gerry Adams in the 1997 Dáil elections and went on to hold positions, including treasurer of a cumann, in West Belfast despite previous claims from his brother that he had long been expelled from Sinn Féin. So while Gerry Adams had known, and by his own public admission, believed that his brother Liam was a child rapist, Gerry continued to offer succour and promote Liam within the republican movement. However, Liam Dominic Adams is not the only skeleton in the Sinn Fein/IRA wardrobe, Michael Marron a Sinn Fein/IRA activist from Barcroft Park in Newry who ran a smear campaign against former IRA man, turned peace campaigner, Eamon Collins (murdered by the IRA 1999) pleaded guilty and was sentenced to several years in prison for raping a female child in Newry. Marron like many hundreds of others had used his unquestioned position in Sinn Fein/IRA to carry out his evil deeds against little children.It is well known that an IRA ‘punishment squad’ that operated out of Drumargh Park in Armagh City was made up of child rapists and paedophiles who were given a free hand as many of them were informers, this group was made up of members from Armagh and Monaghan and its informers never severed one day in jail.In Monaghan Town, Brendan Toal, father of Monaghan, Sinn Fein Councillor, Malachy Toal was arrested and questioned on two occasions in relation to separate instances of child molestation at Mullaghmatt housing estate in Monaghan Town. As the children sexually molested were only 4 years old the DPP decided the children would not be able to give evidence in an open court. Indeed in 2000 Donna Toal, Malachy Toal’s daughter set herself up as a campaigner for victims of sexual crime, however, at the very time that she was ‘campaigning’ her own cousin on her mother’s side of the family was before Monaghan Circuit Court for the systematic sexual abuse of his two nieces.Sinn Fein and the IRA in Belfast have had a long history with child abuse and rape, Gerry Adams Snr, father of Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams TD was a known child rapist, but his crimes were concealed by Sinn Fein and the IRA and he was actually given a full IRA military funeral.The OC of the provisional IRA in north Belfast used his position on many occasions to rape and molest women and children, when victims did go forward to the authorities these victims and their families were forced out of the area by Sinn Fein/IRA, this pattern was repeated in all areas where Sinn Fein/IRA wielded power.In Armagh County it is known that several women and children were raped by an IRA active service unit, this unit included Aidan Starrs who was a prolific sex offender, all three members of this unit were shot dead by the IRA for being informers, the person who carried out their murders, Freddie Scappactini was in fact an M15 agent and this is now public knowledge.Martin Forbes (53) from Strabane in County Tyrone was a senior member of Sinn Fein/IRA, he also used the alias Drew, Forbes had been a senior member of the IRA and had served several years in the IRA Blocks at Long Kesh for IRA activity, upon his release Forbes had been selected by the Sinn Fein leadership to run as a candidate in local government elections. Forbes had used his position in Sinn Fein/IRA to sexual molest both women and children.In recent months a senior member of both Sinn Fein and the Provisional IRA was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin to 15 years for child rape.In stark contrast to the crimes being committed by Sinn Fein/IRA members and being concealed by those organisations, Sinn Fein/IRA actually used their mouth-piece tabloid An Phoblacht/Republican News to lambast people who were outside of Sinn Fein/IRA but who came before the courts for sex related and lesser crimes. While Sinn/Fein IRA were lambasting petty criminals in their tabloid rag, behind closed doors Sinn Fein/IRA from their leadership down were concealing the Rape and sexual molestation of children. Niall O Dowd, Editor, Irish Voice tabloid in New York who has been a cheer leader for Sinn Fein over many years never mentioned any of this Sinn Fein/IRA paedophile activity.In Dublin several child rapists worked hand in hand with Sinn Fein/IRA, Christy Griffin and Stephen ‘Rossi’ Walsh were key players associated with Sinn Fein/IRA in Dublin, both Christy Griffin and Rossi Walsh are now serving long sentences for child rape. The list of child molesters and rapists exposed in Sinn Fein/IRA over the years is endless; however, those who protected these rapists and concealed their crimes remain at large.One stands amazed that so-called republicans can justify concealing the rape of children and protecting their rapists, however, one must remember that Sinn Fein/IRA is an organisation that has for four-decades been engaged in the kidnap, rape, murder, mutilation and torture of men, women and children the length and breadth of Ireland.September 25, 2012Speech of Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Children Second Stage Speech on Thirty First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012 A Cheann Comhairle,This is an historic day. It is one that the children of Ireland have awaited for far too long. I must commend Minister Fitzgerald for bringing forward a formula of words that if passed, would provide a constitutional amendment acknowledging children’s rights, as individuals, in their own right.We in Sinn Féin have called for children’s rights to be enshrined in the Constitution for many years. It is our view that the minimum standard for children’s rights within any State, within any legal system, is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This was the view that we set out when the discussions around the enshrining of children’s rights resumed in 2008. It was the view we held when Minister Brian Lenihan produced a formula of words. It was the view we stuck to during the deliberations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children chaired by the former Deputy Mary O’Rourke. And it was the view we retained when former children’s Minister Barry Andrews produced a formula of words. The UNCRC must be the document that underpins all of our laws concerning children. As contributors to the wording that eventually received cross-party endorsement in the Joint Oireachtas Committee, we were pleased that although it did not directly incorporate the UNCRC into domestic Irish law, it did go some way to including some of the core elements within it, such as the principle of equality between all children and that the best interests of all children would be paramount in matters concerning them.While the words contained in the Final Report of the Committee received cross-party support, it is regrettable that it did not find favour with all who have addressed it since. The Thirty First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012 does not mirror that wording; however it does address some important issues for children in Ireland. This constitutional amendment, if passed, will mean the “natural and imprescriptible” rights of all children will be protected and vindicated. It is not clear what the precise constitutional meaning of those “natural and imprescriptible” rights is, however. There is no accompanying legislation to set out what they are, but it is quite clear to anyone familiar with the Irish legal system and establishment, that the Supreme Court will not interpret this to mean that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is suddenly a part of domestic Irish law. However, it does acknowledge that there are rights that children have. And this is important. It is a significant step on the road towards ensuring that children’s rights as set out in the UNCRC are incorporated into Bunreacht na hÉireann and become binding upon the State.We in Sinn Féin do not view this amendment as being a panacea to rectify the myriad of ways in which the State has failed to cherish all children of the nation equally – we view it as the first step on a road towards incorporating the UNCRC into Irish law. This amendment does not do everything we would like it to do but it does have the potential to rectify some of the legal barriers that have prevented the State from intervening in marital families where there is a child at risk or being abused. The amendment will readjust the threshold for State intervention and place an onus on the State to support children and to adopt a ‘proportionate’ response to parental failure so that cases such as the notorious Roscommon abuse case are not allowed to happen again. It will ensure that children, in those very exceptional circumstances where children have been totally and utterly failed by their birth families, and have been placed in the care of foster families and have formed loving family connections with their foster parents, may be adopted and become their legal children and be entitled to all of the rights and privileges that accompany that status.There are some 6,000 children in the care of the State, some of whom have been in care for more than five years and have no contact with their birth parents. The amendment will also accommodate those parents who are married and in whatever unfortunate circumstances who may wish to place their children for adoption. While the State must do everything within its power to help keep families together and do all in its power to ensure that families are adequately supported, there will be those exceptional cases where this is simply not possible. In such cases, the child or children concerned must be given a second chance to experience a loving family relationship. This amendment will have no impact on the definition of the ‘family’ under the Constitution. But it will allow the Oireachtas to legislate to allow ‘abandoned’ marital children to be adopted if that is in their best interests.Under this constitutional amendment those children’s best interests would be the paramount consideration for the Court. We cannot underestimate the power of this. Our only criticism is that this particular constitutional provision means that the Courts are not required to view the best interests of the child as the paramount consideration in cases where there is not a guardianship, or custody or access issue in question. The provision is specifically drafted to exclude the Courts from being required to consider the best interests of the child as paramount where the State is merely a party to a case. That is to say, the provision is drafted so that the wording means that if, for example, a parent of a child with a learning disability took a case against the State because she or he felt the State had breached their duties under the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act (EPSEN Act) due to a lack of special needs assistant hours, the Courts are not required to examine what the child’s best interests are in that case. Further to this, outside of those guardianship and custody cases, the child will have no constitutional right to ensure that his or her own views are taken in to account by the deciding Court.Of course, if this constitutional amendment is passed either in its current form, or as amended in our further debates this or next week, it is important that the Government gives a commitment that the necessary resources will be provided so that the rights that children will then have can actually be realised. It will be essential, I would think, that the legal profession and judiciary receive appropriate training on the new constitutional and legislative provisions. Some of the principles of the UNCRC have been encapsulated in this text. However, we were disappointed with how narrowly they were drawn. Let us make no mistake about this constitutional amendment. It will not directly affect most children. It will resolve the outstanding child protection issues and adoption issues for children in marital families, but for the child who is living in poverty, or who has had their special needs supports cut, or who is in need of additional educational supports to get them through the school year – it will not address let alone resolve their situation.We must be clear about what this amendment does and does not do. Some will be disappointed that it does not go far enough. Some will think it goes too far. The vast, vast majority of people will, I believe, support it and see it as real progress and a strengthening of the foundations of our society. That is as I see it and that is why I and my party will campaign for this constitutional change. I have read some of the commentary of those who oppose this referendum. As I said earlier and I restate again - this amendment will have no impact on the definition of the ‘family’ under the constitution. I understand that there are people out there who will be concerned that this amendment will mean that there will be unnecessary levels of state intervention, or that the parent will not be the rightful automatic carer of their children. These arguments are false and potentially misleading.While I would like to see a constitutional amendment to change the definition of family in order to more accurately reflect the diverse nature of families today, this particular proposition will not do that. This will neither alter nor weaken the constitutional family unit. The special protection received by the traditional family construct in Article 41 will not be damaged. I am calling upon the Government to ensure that they invest the required resources to inform people as to what this referendum will do. It is of the utmost importance that false arguments shown to be so. What is at stake are children’s lives. Childhood does not last forever, and for far too long in our society we have seen generations of children grow up and not have their needs met. Passing this constitutional provision means that the Irish people will have acknowledged that children have legal rights as individuals. It will be a constitutional acknowledgement that children have rights to be seen and heard that they did not have in 1937 when the Constitution was enacted or since. It will be another important step forward to a new and enlightened attitude towards children. For several years now and with what has seemed an almost six-monthly regularity new reports have come out. Some are historical investigations, some are current and interim. The Ryan Report, the Roscommon Case, the Independent Child Death Review Group Reports, the inspections of the special care homes, the investigations into Church dioceses. It has been a long and sorry litany. It has been harrowing reading and we must all have felt ashamed. Details of who knew of child abuse and when they found out and their failures to act. People have cried out - “Why did no one say stop?” This constitutional amendment gives all voting citizens the opportunity to say ‘stop.’ It is also about starting anew. This amendment is not perfect – but it is a major step forward. We in Sinn Féin commend to the government and to all members in this house, our amendments to the proposed wording. We have tabled them to help make the wording as strong and comprehensive as we possibly can. There is a very real opportunity here to make further tangible changes to children’s lives in Ireland and I would appeal to the Government to seize the moment and make this proposed constitutional change the very best and most worthwhile we can.