Calls for probe into child prostitution

A CHILDREN’S rights group has called for an immediate investigation into child protection standards following revelations of organised child prostitution in Ireland.

An RTE Prime Time programme on male prostitution in Dublin, broadcast on Thursday, followed one social worker who ran a male prostitution agency in the Capital. Some of his employees began working for him at the age of 16.

Speaking on RTE’s Morning Ireland programme yesterday, Paul Gilligan, chief executive of the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC), said the Prime Time expose was one of the worst cases of organised child abuse he had ever come across and he was extremely concerned.