A VOLUNTEER system could offset huge costs associated with providing an advocacy service for children in the court system, the head of a child protection organisation has said.

THE head of an international child protection agency has told a judge that a two-year sentence for a convicted sex offender who hoarded more than 35,000 child pornography images is “wholly inadequate”.

A US CHILD protection chief has criticised the Government and the Garda for not accepting professional assistance on tackling child abuse.

A US child-protection group is campaigning for the deportation of an Irish swimming coach who fled to the US in 1994 after a number of sex abuse charges against him were dropped.