Sex abuse sentences ‘do not fit crime’

JUSTICE is not being done for women in cases where low sentences are being handed down to convicted sex abusers, the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has warned.

Ellen O’Malley Dunlop last night said the law in relation to sentencing in rape and child sex abuse cases clearly had to be changed following the handing down of a four-year sentence for a serial sex abuser.

Edwin Curry, 63, last November pleaded guilty at Kilkenny Circuit Court to a number of counts of indecent assault on four girls but denied the rest of the 189 charges against him, involving a further five girls.