Council to join in calls for sexual assault unit

LIMERICK County Council will today join calls for the opening of a sexual assault unit at the Mid- Western Regional Hospital.

Victims of rape and sexual assault in the hospital have to travel to Cork to undergo a forensic medical examination because there is no sexual assault unit in the region.

Last weekend, gardaí in Limerick had to bring a girl of 14 to the Cork sexual assault unit after she was attacked at a house party. Councillor Tom Neville of Fine Gael has tabled a notice of motion for today’s monthly meeting of Limerick County Council calling on the minister for health to give the Health Service Executive Mid-West the go-ahead to open a sexual assault unit at the hospital.