‘Families are responsible for reporting sex abuse’
Mr Justice Robert Eagar made the remarks in the Central Criminal Court as he jailed a man for 18 months for raping and sexually abusing his cousin from when he was 12 and she was aged six. The judge noted the girl’s family and extended family became aware of the abuse in 2007, when she was eight years old.
He said the decision of the family, and particularly her grandparents, not to alert the gardaí or social services “was a grave error”.
