Having David Quinn preaching about protecting children from sex abuse is akin to Bertie Ahern preaching about moral ethics in public life, or Brian Cowen claiming he was never drunk on the radio, or believing that Michael Lowry never took a bribe from Denis O Brien. It just does not read well. Quinn’s banner headline today reads: ‘The best away to protect children from sex abuse is to teach about the age of consent.’ If that did it on it’s own the world would indeed be a better place.
Quinn in reality of course, has been a life long apologist for the Catholic church, wrote for them while mitigating their crimes for every kind of abuse against the most vulnerable, the most precious and the most innocent of us all: the children of the world.
He wrote that victims of the Magdalene laundries and the Industrial Institutions for children simply had an axe to grind, and that we, by and large, were liars. He wrote that the abuse of children was homosexual in nature, and that the Church was not trying to cover up the abuse of children but to help children. He wrote that a lone parent in a village, who did not want his child to be given brainwashed indoctrination at school, was “the village atheist.”
His verbal vomit is a distress to any victim of abuse but still the Irish Independent believes he has something relevant to say in a world that has long passed him by. What does he have to say today and why is he saying it? Between his lines and lies is a very dangerous point of view and one that has and is still protecting his tribe today: paedophiles in clerical robes.
Quinn always has a report in hand and cherry picks enough to make the cherries appear like apples. The rape crisis centre is right: Knowing the difference between rape and consent is the imperative for children and not what the law says. The paedophile does know what the law says and banks on the innocent ignorance of the child and nothing else; getting the child to believe it is a game, their little secret, or is quite simply a punishment for an imaginary crime. A thinly veiled consent is got by those lies and omission and the cover up after goes the same way. In fact knowledge or ignorance of the law does not even come into the equation. Let us be clear here: a sexual crime against a minor is not only an act of rape but the actions of a paedophile. Say it David: ‘the actions of a paedophile.’
The British Oxford report that Quinn cites from is a clever and devious way for him to mitigate the crimes of paedophile priests in that it was the 'authorities' who didn’t want to be judgemental or condemn underage sex as wrong, or interfere with the children’s self determining choice in matter of sexuality; even referring to a professional tolerance where children are sexualised at an even younger age. This report is literally a blueprint for the cover up that was used and is still being used by the Irish government and the Catholic church. Quinn is the ultimate of what it means to be a wolf in sheep's clothing as he tries to hijack and undermine the words and meaning of the Rape Crisis Centre for his open twisted aims. Though it appears that he is on a different subject, what he quotes is an attempt to imply another narrative about the abuse of children in why there was reason for cover up by the shifting and twisting sands of authority. This can only mean his former paymasters, the Catholic church.
Barry Clifford
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