Cahill: I worried about the screams of those children

Rape victim Maíria Cahill said she brought her case to a number of politicians in the South because she felt "so guilty" that her abuser had access to other children over the years.

Cahill: I worried about the screams of those children

The 33-year-old said the protection of children was her only motivation in highlighting her case since speaking to a BBC Spotlight documentary on how she was abused by a senior IRA figure in 1997 when she was 16, and later subject to a kangaroo court inquiry.

She described lying awake at night crying “worried about the screams of those children” who were abused by others within the Republican movement in the North who, it’s claimed, were in some cases moved across the border or to England.

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