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Why it’s safe to remain silent

FOLLOWING the recent screening

Why it’s safe to remain silent

Thu, 24 Oct, 2002 - 01:00

RTÉ of the Prime Time programme ‘Cardinal Sins, ’ there have been strident calls for the prosecutions of certain individuals who failed to report alleged cases of child abuse to the relevant authorities.

In this regard there is a little known crime called 'misprision of felony,' failure to report the commission of a crime.

In her report on the Kilkenny Incest Inquiry, Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness made direct reference to the indictable criminal offence 'misprision of felony.'

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