Ireland becoming ‘safe haven’ for sex offenders

IRELAND is developing an international tag as a safe haven for sex offenders because there isn’t sufficient monitoring to prevent them getting jobs working around children.

Ireland becoming ‘safe haven’ for sex offenders

That is according to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, speaking after it was revealed that British sex offender Paul Hunter Redpath has notified gardaí that he is in the country.

Redpath has been convicted of sex offences against two young girls in the North and breached his probation conditions there by leaving the jurisdiction. Since then he has been sighted in various parts of the country.

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