Gardaí wrongly told local authority that child abuse survivor had conviction when applying for housing assistance

The same Garda station was being investigated by Gsoc over the handling of historic child abuse allegations relating to 'Alice' and other members of her family, when the information was sent to the local authority by a sergeant in 2015.

Gardaí wrongly told a local authority that a child abuse survivor had a conviction for driving without insurance when she was applying for housing assistance, it has emerged.

‘Alice’ only found out that inaccurate conviction information had been supplied to the local authority after she submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for documents relating to her application.