Mother attacks ‘system’ over sex abuse of daughter

THE mother of a four-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by a 16-year-old said her daughter and family would have to wait up to 30 weeks before they received counselling, yet, the defendant received therapy immediately.

“The system seems far more involved with the guilty than it is with the innocent,” the woman told Macroom District Court.

The 16-year-old youth pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the child at her home in Co Cork between January 1 and August 28, 2004.