The
true figure for missing persons in Ireland could be
675!
Kilkenny People 23rd October 1998 states that over
90+ people were missing at that time BUT the GARDA
had only the missing 6 women from Leinster on their
website!
The people of Ireland HAVE TO WAKE UP to the
reality that the Irish Police have been covering up
the TRUE FIGURES FOR THE IRISH MISSING!
I call on the politicians to call for an inquiry
into these matters!
If they dont they will one day be held to account
by the people of Ireland for their cowardice and
abrogation of their duties as public representatives!
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At last someone in the Irish
Times is allowed to write about the missing refugee
children! - However - recently the silence concerning
missing refugee children has been growing, and
growing and growing and growing and
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HOWEVER --- STILL NO
INVESTIGATION INTO THE 450+ MISSING REFUGEE KIDS!
SHUSH SHUSH GOES THE
HSE!
HUSH HUSH GOES THE GARDA!
What happened to all the missing foreign
children - The Irish Times - Sat, Feb 27, 2010
The Irish Times - Saturday, February 27, 2010
What happened to all the missing
foreign children?
THERE IS something about a photograph. When you
don’t know someone personally, a photograph
makes the person real and vivid in a way no amount of
verbal description can. When the person has
previously just been just a statistic, the impact is
infinitely greater, writes BREDA O'BRIEN
Although I have often written about the scandalous
numbers of children who have gone missing while in
the care of the Health Service Executive, somehow I
had never visited the http://ie.missingkids.com
website. When I finally did so last week, I found
myself stunned that there is not a daily outcry to
find these young people.
Are we, as Phil Garland, HSE assistant national
director for children and families, suggested, simply
racist? The first thing that struck me was the huge
amount of foreign faces, although it is a website for
all missing children.
Among the girls, many are Chinese or African. Two
in particular caught my attention – Xiao Ming
Chen, aged 15, with her heavy fringe, fragile
shoulders and tense, pretty face, and Caroline Njoki
from Kenya, aged 13, with her huge, sombre eyes.
As a second level teacher, they remind me of
pupils. I can only imagine the resources that would
be marshalled and the blanket media coverage if Irish
children whom I teach went missing. Between 2000 and
2009 a total of 501 migrant children went missing
from HSE care. Only 67 have been successfully traced.
There are 434 missing children, and we go about
our daily business as if nothing of any major import
has happened.
A November 2009 Report of the Office of the
Children’s Ombudsman on separated children
highlighted the stark contrast between how Irish and
asylum-seeking children are treated. From January to
May 2009, apart from children seeking asylum, 53
other children went missing from HSE care.
Of these, only two remain missing, and even here,
contact was made with them. From January to May 2009,
27 asylum-seeking children went missing, and at the
time of the report’s publication, only two were
accounted for. (Seven more have since been traced.)
In a bitter irony, an asylum-seeking child who was
assisting the ombudsman’s office with its
research went missing from school. By the time of
publication of the report, her picture had not
appeared on the missing children’s website, and
there was no publicity about the case.
It is more than puzzling that, given there are 434
missing children, my own search of ie.missingkids.com
for the last 10 years showed up records for only 48
girls and 90 boys. Why are the others not on the
website?
One Opposition TD, Denis Naughten of Fine Gael,
has been on a mission for some time to raise
awareness of the plight of these young people. When
he spoke to me during the week, he confirmed that the
numbers of children disappearing dropped dramatically
towards the end of last year.
As far as Naughten can ascertain, five children
disappeared in September, of whom three were traced.
None disappeared in October and November, and one in
December. (The child in December was traced and
returned to care.) He finds it difficult even to get
facts and figures from the HSE. His requests for
figures for January have not, to date, even been
acknowledged.
He went on to say that while it is good that the
numbers are dropping, what about the more than 400
still unaccounted for? He suggests imagining an Irish
teenager missing in, say, Russia, with no knowledge
of the language or culture, and vulnerable to every
type of exploitation.
A statement from the HSE said that the issue of
separated children who go missing from care was
complex, and was sometimes simplified and
sensationalised.
“It has been unsubstantiated that any of the
children who go missing from HSE care have been
trafficked.” So where are they then?
When we look to our nearest neighbour, Britain,
the assertion that those alleging that these children
may have been trafficked are just simplifying and
sensationalising the issue begins to sound hollow.
The Guardian newspaper has carried out a number of
investigations of children who went missing very
quickly from state care, and in particular, Chinese
children. The newspaper’s reporters have even
travelled to China, to the province of Fujian, from
where many of the children who end up in Britain
originate.
A very disturbing picture emerges. Communities
club together to fund a person to go abroad, in the
expectation that the person will thrive and send
money home regularly. A Chinese researcher posing as
a would-be migrant was told that if she could raise
£15,000, getting her into Britain by a circuitous
route would be no problem.
What about her 12-year-old sister, the researcher
asked? No problem. They send lots of children, and
“it is 100 per cent safe”. Far from being
safe, the Guardian uncovered ample evidence that many
Chinese girls end up in prostitution.
Another Chinese woman working on behalf of the
Guardian answered an advertisement for a housekeeper
in a brothel, and discovered young, exhausted and
utterly demoralised young Chinese women there who had
been trafficked. They were too ashamed to tell their
families what had happened. “You grit your teeth
and endure the pain,” one said.
Is the same happening in Ireland? Are others in
virtual slavery, working in homes and businesses? No
doubt many have been moved out of Ireland, as it is
recognised that Ireland is seen as an EU entry point.
It is important to acknowledge progress, such as
the gradual closure of unsuitable hostels, and a
reduction in the numbers who simply walk out of HSE
care, never to be seen again.
However, what about finding the children missing
to date? Is it not about time the Irish public joined
Denis Naughten and other children’s rights
advocates in the demand for answers?
bobrien@irishtimes.ie
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7311
Darfurism, Uganda and the U.S. War in
Africa The Spectre of Continental Genocide
by Keith Harmon Snow
The French “humanitarian” charity NGO Zoe’s Ark (L’Arche
de Zoé)
"Zoes Arch" kidnaps
children for paedophile networks!
involved in Chad and Darfur
is under investigation by the United Nations, France
and Chad for trafficking in black children in the
widely under-reported “L'Arche de Zoé
affair.” Chadian President Idriss Déby is under
attack for alleging “pedophilia” and
“organ trafficking” and for arresting
seventeen Europeans intercepted at an airport in Chad
attempting to depart to France with 103 “Darfur
orphans” aged six to ten. The Zoe’s Ark
project began fundraising April 28, 2007 to
“evacuate 10,000 orphans facing certain
death” to France and the United States. Some 300
European’s paid 2000 Euros ($3450) each as
“donations” toward logistics costs to
receive an orphan. UNHCR determined the children
“were living with their families in
communities”—they were neither from Darfur
nor were they orphans—and their health was not a
serious concern.74
The NGO was reportedly provided logistical support by
the French military, and they had made numerous trips
to villages on the Darfur border offering enticements
and taking children.75
Outraged Chadians on the border with Sudan had
already been questioning the motives of scores of
foreign aid groups that work with Darfur refugees.76
The United Nations and other relief organizations
initially denied all knowledge of the Zoe’s Ark
NGO but the NGO was registered as an international
charity with the UN Mission in Sudan. The Zoe’s
Ark website (www.archedezoe.fr/accueil.htm)
lists 800,000 children “in mortal danger today
who must be saved now!”
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Is this the sort of police state
that will take root in Ireland, UK and in the EU
superstate?
Russia
gives powers to FSB to prosecute 'thought crime' -
Telegraph
Russia gives powers to FSB to prosecute 'thought
crime'
The Russian security service has been given
extended powers to act against people for so-called
"thought crime" under a new law which
opponents say marks a return to Soviet-era policing.
Published: 9:52AM BST 29 Jul 2010
The bill, criticised by rights groups, would allow
the Federal Security Service (FSB) to issue official
warnings to individuals whose actions are deemed to
be creating the conditions for crime.
Rights groups say the bill would essentially put
the special service above the law and harks back to
Soviet times when the much-feared FSB predecessor KGB
used warnings to persecute dissidents.
The bill had already sailed through the lower and
upper houses of parliament and was today signed into
law by the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev.
The opposition says the FSB security service is
already extremely powerful and empowering it further
would contravene Mr Medvedev's pledge to liberalise Russia.
In response to protests from human rights
activists, lawmakers earlier removed an amendment
allowing the FSB to summon people to their offices to
hand out the warnings and also publish their warnings
in the media.
Earlier this month, Mr Medvedev launched a staunch
defence of the law, saying its aim was to improve
Russian legislation and had been drawn up on his
personal orders.
"Every country has a right to fine-tune its
legislation, including in respect to special
services," he said. "And what is happening
today – I would like you to know that – has
been done on my direct instructions."
Under the 2000-2008 presidency of Vladimir Putin,
a former KGB agent, the FSB dramatically increased
its influence over Russian society.
Human rights activists had hoped his successor Mr
Medvedev, a lawyer by training without a KGB past,
would put the special services in check.
But Medvedev's critics say the Kremlin chief has
promoted only cosmetic reforms and Russians have not
become freer under his rule.
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Irish State and political rhetoric for
cover-up!
The usual spiel vomits from
spokesmen of the Garda, HSE, state and media lackeys
and politicians when the crimes begin to leak out!
However - watch out for the FALSE
champions of the victims taking charge of the
so-called investigations - no-one will be prosecuted
and the "Buck stops" nowhere!
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The Garda so-called "law
enforcement in Ireland" - have known
about paedophile rings for 10 years but it has been
covered up by them and their powerful
"friends"!
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/exposed-irelands-vile-childsex-rings-438657.html
Exposed: Ireland's vile child-sex rings
Saturday July 11 1998
Special investigation: In the week when Justice
Minister John O'Donoghue launched a major report
detailing the dissemination of child pornography on
the Internet, The Irish Independent has uncovered
disturbing new evidence of organised paedophilia in
this country. A special investigation by Gemma
O'Doherty and Jerome Reilly finds the stereotype of
the `dirty old man' has been replaced by wealthy
businessmen prepared to take major risks in
satisfying their perversion Special investigation: In
the week when Justice Minister John O'Donoghue
launched a major report detailing the dissemination
of child pornography on the Internet, The Irish
Independent has uncovered disturbing new evidence of
organised paedophilia in this country. A special
investigation by Gemma O'Doherty and Jerome Reilly
finds the stereotype of the `dirty old man' has been
replaced by wealthy businessmen prepared to take
major risks in satisfying their perversion
Shocking new evidence of highly-organised
paedophile networks operating along the east coast
and preying on children as young as 11 years old has
been uncovered by an Irish Independent investigation.
As well as a number of loosely-structured
paedophile rings centred on Dublin, there is
compelling information from a number of childcare
professionals that a sinister group of sexual
predators are exploiting a number of children in the
Louth region.
But it has emerged that the Louth connection is
just one element of a coherent and systematic abuse
of possibly hundreds of children, involving the
distribution of child pornography and the exchange of
information about potential targets. Strong evidence
was contained in the recent Murphy Swimming Report
indicating that a ring of contacts may have been
operating in the sport which has seen two of its
national coaches charged with sexual assaults and
rapes and another leading figure convicted of double
murder, his motive believed to have been his
desperation to keep secret his sexual exploits with
an underage swimmer.
In the west of Ireland, too, there is compelling
evidence of a paedophile network in operation. As
exclusively revealed by The Irish Independent, gardai
in Galway are amassing an extensive dossier to go to
the DPP on sinister activities in the Salthill suburb
of the city.
The internet is just one of the tools used by
members of the rings to keep in contact and satisfy
their lust for ``new material.''
In Dublin senior officers from the Sexual Assault
and Domestic Violence unit based at Harcourt Square
are still conducting a major investigation into an
organised child sex ring involving girls as young as
12.
One alleged ringleader is presently before the
courts, but gardai have now widened their
investigations in their efforts to crack a
significant paedophile network for the first time.
Further arrests are expected. Some vulnerable
children, many of them homeless or in care, have been
drawn into `survival sex' selling their bodies for
money.
Along the east coast a core group of about 30
serial paedophiles have been identified so far, many
of them professional, middle-aged married men.
Businessmen, managing directors and wealthy
property-owners who are willing to travel long
distances to indulge their sick perversion are major
figures in the network.
Evidence began to emerge in Dundalk two years ago
when suspicious activities at a phone box in the
centre of the town came to the attention of youth
workers. As darkness fell each evening the
youngsters, of both sexes emerged from the side
streets and outlying housing estates around Dundalk.
Drawn by the promise of money, gifts and alcohol,
the children would wait for a phonecall to the
coinbox. Arrangements would be made. Many of the
paedophiles had their own favourites and would be
checking on their availability.
Within moments a car, sometimes a top of the range
executive saloon would pull up and the victim would
step quickly into the front seat. From there they
would be taken to secluded locations around the town,
the racecourse, the industrial estates, and the
coast, where they would be subjected to the vilest
forms of sexual abuse.
Although many of the paedophiles operated
independently, some of the youngsters say there was
also collusion between groups of men. They told
childcare workers they were video-taped during group
sex sessions.
Brian Doyle, a youth project manager based in
Dundalk, has been highlighting the sexual
exploitation of children in the area for more than
two years. He believes that Dundalk is the geographic
centre of a major paedophile ring operating along the
east coast.
``The dogs in the street know about it and who is
involved. It is not confined to Dundalk but it would
seem to one of the central locations.''
Doyle believes that since the problem was first
highlighted, it has worsened but the perpetrators
have gone further underground. The phone box is no
longer the focal point and meeting places change
frequently. ``The situation seems to have
disimproved. What happens is that when these men feel
they are at risk of being caught, they become
cleverer and get more of a thrill out of it.
``They may even become more active. The higher the
risk the greater the buzz for them but they also
become more dangerous. These men are by no means on
the dole. Many of them are professionals who arrive
in Mercedes and BMWs.''
Brian Doyle is not a lone voice.
The Irish Independent has confirmation from three
senior figures working in Co Louth of the existence
of an organised network of child abusers. It has also
emerged that the gardai, concerned with the
persistent nature of the allegations have been
conducting an investigation.
But Supt Michael Staunton says that evidence has
been difficult to obtain. One case was processed
through the courts and a conviction was obtained in
the District Court. However, the conviction was
overturned on appeal.
``I can say that surveillance has been on-going by
the gardai. We have spoken to parents, community
groups and the health board. Although we are aware
that a number of youngsters are out of the control of
their parents or those who have authority over them,
it is extremely difficult to gather strong evidence
about those alleged to have been exploiting them,''
he said.
Supt Staunton added: ``To be honest, there has
been precious little evidence so far to support the
view of a large-scale organised network.''
However, the North Eastern Health Board (NEHB)
have expressed its grave concern. They say that at
any one time as many as 12 children in the area are
at serious risk of sexual exploitation by adults.
Denis Cahalane, Child Care Manager with the NEHB,told
the Irish Independent: ``We have been aware of this
for three years but it is very difficult to get
concrete evidence of those involved. We know of
situations from time to time of children who have
gone missing for up to 36 hours.''
Mr Cahalane stated that there is no evidence to
suggest that the situation is any worse in Dundalk
than it is in any place of similar size.
But Rosie Toner, a Project Manager with the Health
Board-funded Youth Initiative Partnership Programme,
is firmly convinced that a paedophile network is
operating in Dundalk. ``That is most definitely the
case. I have come into contact with children who are
being manipulated and targeted by an organised group
of sexual abusers.
``They are not operating from just one location
and the way they target children varies. I am very
disturbed by what young people have been telling
me,'' she said.
Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs
Dermot Ahern told the Irish Independent he was aware
that a number of vulnerable children have been drawn
into exploitation by paedophiles in Dundalk. ``Very
strong suggestions have been made to me by parents
that an organised paedophile ring is operating in the
town. I have no reason to disbelieve them,'' he said.
Calling for vigilance, he appealed for anyone with
information to come forward to the gardai.
Youth Community leader Liam Adams says there is a
strong local involvement in what he described as a
``very well-organised arrangement'' which may also
have links in Donegal. ``We have names of well-known
business people who we are 100pc sure are involved.''
But he says that the authorities should be doing
more to investigate the situation based on the
evidence which has emerged so far.
Registration numbers gathered by social workers
who have conducted their own surveillence on
activities based around Dundalk during the last two
years have been handed over to the gardai for further
investigation.
The allegations of an organised ring extending
from Belfast to Wexford first came to light last week
at a social study conference in Donegal.
The social worker who made the claims, Paul Flynn,
team leader of the Crosscare Aftercare Support Unit
in Dublin, described the ring as ``one of the most
extensive in operation'' and that gardai were aware
of its existence.
A number of young men who had abandoned
prostitution had disclosed that they had been abused
by a network of men who knew each other and were in
regular contact with each other. These same men are
still targeting children in Leinster.
Paul Flynn believes several hundred boys between
the ages of 10 and 16 are being subjected to major
sexual abuse by a group of approximately 50
highly-organised, highly professional individuals who
were co-ordinated from Dublin.
The registration numbers of cars observed in
suspicious circumstances originate from border
counties, including Louth, Monaghan and Down, as well
as Dublin and Meath.
Several national figures involved in the area of
child protection have expressed their concerns about
the existence of loosely-organised paedophile rings
operating in Dublin.
Owen Keenan, Chief Executive of Barnardos,
believes that paedophiles may have infiltrated local
authorities and care agencies involved in the
protection of children. He said he was not surprised
by claims of organised child sex abuse. ``There are a
lot of sinister things happening and there is
certainly enough anecdotal evidence to be very
suspicious.
`We know that there is a market for sex with
children. We know there is a degree of organisation
and a sharing of information.''
``I cannot believe there is no infiltration of
services for children. Any manager of a childcare
project who believes that it is not possible for
paedophiles to infiltrate childcare services is
negligent, to say the least.''
``We've seen so much abuse of children in recent
years,'' says the director of the Dublin Rape Crisis
Centre, Olive Braiden. ``We've seen it in swimming,
in the number of clerics who've been found guilty and
there is no reason not to believe that there are
other organised groups in which it is going on. There
is a culture of secrecy in Ireland,'' he added.
According to Fr Peter McVerry, who has been
working with some of the most vulnerable children in
Dublin for years, it is obvious that a significant
number of Dublin paedophiles know each other and are
in regular contact. He speaks of loosely-organised
groups. ``There is no question that there is
collusion.
Many of them are self-made wealthy men. There is a
perception that these people are dirty old men
dressed in raincoats. That is not the case. Very
often they may be pillars of the community, with
wives and children.''
Childcare agencies have found that such is the
demand for children, there is evidence that younger
women involved in prostitution have been dressing
down in an effort to make themselves look younger.
Some of them dress in ankle socks and wear pony-tails
in their hair to give the impression that they are
younger than they actually are.
In some cases, it has been established that
parents have been offering their children to men in
exchange for money. There is also evidence that
brothels in Dublin have arrangements whereby children
can be ordered from them.
Demands were recently made by local residents to
have the public toilets in a housing estate in
Dundalk demolished after children were being
approached by men in cars. Brian Doyle first became
concerned that children in Dundalk were being abused
when he observed the explicit nature of some of the
language they were using.
Along with other child care workers in the Dundalk
area, he has carried out surveillance. Doyle believes
that a special unit is now needed to deal
specifically with the situation in Dundalk needs to
be established.
``We have reached a crisis point now. These are
the Celtic Tiger Cubs, the most socially excluded
children in our society. I've seen so many kids
sucked into this and watched their lives being
destroyed.
``So little has been done to try to stop it. Where
are the care units for these children? Where are the
resources? Where is the zero tolerance this
Government spoke about before it was elected? We have
to stop denying that it's going on. If you deny it,
it festers and grows. We all need to work together.''
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- Photo of the Monument to
the missing people of Ireland!
Left: New Monument for the
Irish missing
Above: Stone Memorial
commemorating the numerous Irish missing
people, officially opened by Irish President,
Mary McAleese.
Monument for the missing
people in Ireland erected in the grounds of
Kilkenny Castle and officially opened on the
26th May 2002 by Mary McAleese , President of
Ireland.
