The 'Onehouse' in Galway brings together all the necessary medical, therapeutic and policing services for children in one location.

A Limerick man involved in running a children's charity in Africa has been jailed for six years for the sexual defilement of a 13-year old girl.

Cormac O'Keefe examines the lack of sexual assault treatment units and the need for more sexual health and aftercare services nationwide.

Child sex abuse victims are attending Galway University Hospital’s emergency department (ED) for examination because the State’s only 24-hour forensic treatment service for under-14s has closed.

Forensic medical examiners for victims of child sex abuse, who run the only specialist clinic of its kind in Ireland, have withdrawn their services.

THE country’s only dedicated 24-hour examination service for child sexual assault victims dealt with more than one child a week last year — the youngest of whom was aged 18 months.

IRELAND’S first amalgamated child, adolescent and adult 24-hour sexual assault service is now up and running in Galway.

FORTY-SIX children alleging sexual abuse have been examined this year by forensic specialists providing a voluntary out-of-hours services for the mid-western region alone.

IT is shocking to think the state provides no dedicated specialist services to examine, interview and support young children who have been sexually abused or assaulted.

CHILDREN sexually abused up to the age of 14 are, in many cases, awaiting several days to be forensically examined.