‘No proper support for teen sex offenders’

TEENAGE sex offenders have to travel abroad for proper treatment in an effort to stop them drifting into adult crime.

The National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers’ annual conference in Malahide, Co Dublin, yesterday heard that Irish clinics lack the expertise and resources to accept juvenile offenders.

Instead they are routinely sent for treatment programmes in Britain at a cost of €70,000 each.