Families of sex offenders ‘should adopt monitoring role’

The clinical director of One in Four has said the families of those caught and convicted for offences including possession of child abuse images must accept that their lives will never be the same and ideally adopt a role in helping to monitor the offender into the future.

Eileen Finnegan made her comments after a week in which a number of people contacted RTÉ radio’s Liveline programme to outline the stigma of being associated with a sex offender.