Earlier this year Australia became the first country in the world to introduce strict legislation to clamp down on sex offenders leaving or attempting to go abroad.
Now Ireland looks set to follow with draft legislation expected to be introduced later this month, which would pave the way for this country becoming the first European nation to make it illegal for convicted paedophiles to travel overseas.
The campaign is being spearheaded by Fr Shay Cullen, the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Irish missionary who runs the PREDA child abuse charity in the Philippines.
The Dublin-born priest said a move to prevent registered sex offenders from travelling abroad would particularly benefit developing nations, such as the Philippines, where sex tourism and child prostitution are rife.
How poorly misinformed or outright lying the politicians are is staggering and frightening.
I wonder what the EU court of human rights will have to say about that. I thought freedom of movement was essential to them. It only makes sense that the most religious country in Europe would follow America’s lead as well.
The idea of preventing registrants aka “pedophiles” from traveling in and out of the country because of that person’s criminal history of for example, sex offence against a child due to high recidivism and utilize it to predict his/her behavior is nothing more than oxymoron to scare people, when the real criminals are not the ones on the registry, but those that are not on the registry that have not gotten caught committing criminal acts.
Ahh, written by a priest. What legislations has he written to safeguard the children within their own churches? I think that would be a formidable task in itself. Perhaps he is the typical one of trying to distract people away from seeing what is going on in his own house.
Well since the UK’s left the EU there’s nothing they can do about it.
I don’t know if the Irish Republic has blocked foreign Registrants from entering or not and it’s not listed on Registrant TAG website (although that is probably incomplete). Ireland is particularly hysterical about sex and gender-feminist-dominated these days, however. They’re the worst of both worlds; history of extreme religiosity plus hyper-sex-vigilance. I would tend to avoid it.
The method of thinking is that whilst they are still digging up the graves of murdered children in Catholic run orphanages and having to face the crimes of their forefathers, this law will give them complete absolvence in the eyes of God.
The real danger is that this could spread to the UK.
So 4% of convicted sex offenders in Australia traveled overseas? 800 of 20,000 is 4%, right? That would line up with the recidivism figures that we see IF EVERY ONE of those travlers reoffended while they were abroad. which we know they didn’t. Its For THE CHILDREN, I tell ya.