JUSTICE is not being done for women in cases where low sentences are being handed down to convicted sex abusers, the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has warned.

ILLEGAL evictions are still being carried out by landlords and foreigners are particularly vulnerable, housing agency Threshold warned yesterday.

IT began with an assault on an 11-year-old girl and escalated into a bitter dispute between two families involving claims of intimidation, abuse and harassment.

A RECLUSE who fled his Waterford home after he was assaulted and became the subject of a vigilante attack has been placed on the sex offender’s register until his next court appearance in June, 2004.

A FORMER care worker who sexually assaulted an orphan on a regular basis in a State-run institution where he himself was physically and sexually abused as a child has been jailed for two years.