Garda chief: Crime against women online like a mutating virus

Crime against women is like a virus that keeps mutating, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan told a conference on digital abuse of women.

She recalled that in the 1970s, women needed a husband’s authorisation to get a library card and that it was possible in those times for a women to be fired for getting married.

“In the 1970s stalking was not an issue and cyberstalking was certainly not a possibility and then, like every new manifestation of evil, we began to come to terms with it.”