Cork campaigners ask for Taoiseach's support after sex assaults on homeless women
Rape survivor and campaigner Lavinia Kerwick has called on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to meet with Cork Penny Dinners co-ordinator Caitriona Twomey to address a spate of sexual assaults against homeless people in Cork.
Ms Kerwick, who in 1992 became the first Irish rape survivor to waive their right to anonymity, and whose campaigning led to the introduction of victim impact statements, and the granting to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) the power to appeal the leniency of sentences, spoke in the wake of comments by Ms Twomey and by Cork Sexual Violence Centre founder Mary Crilly.
