Victim ‘wants world to know uncle is a child molester’

A Carlow woman who was molested by her uncle as a child has waived her right to anonymity so “the world can know he is a child abuser”.

Victim ‘wants world to know uncle is a child molester’

Deirdre Curtis, 30, who was first abused by Eamonn McCall, aged 40, when she was seven, told the Central Criminal Court she was not waiving her right for the fame and that she understood this would make life difficult for her family.

McCall, a former US Marine who now lives on North Circular Rd in Dublin 7, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting Ms Curtis and attempting to rape her in her family home in Pollerton, Carlow Town, on dates between April 1990 and Jan 1995.

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