IRSP : 'RUC/PSNI Involved in Child Abuse'

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday November 05, 2002 16:51 by Britkilla - REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PUBLICITY BUREAU COSTELLO HOUSE, 392 FALLS ROAD, BELFAST. BT12 6DH Tel/fax- 02890 330786

The IRSP in North Belfast have slammed the RUC/PSNI as being involved in wholesale child abuse, following the revelation that a thirteen-year-old boy from the Ardoyne area has been "blackmailed by the discredited force into working as a low level informer against his own community," said IRSP representative in North Belfast, Paul Little.

IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY * PRESS RELEASE
04 November 2002

"RUC/PSNI Involved in Wholesale Child Abuse" - IRSP

The IRSP in North Belfast have slammed the RUC/PSNI as being involved in
wholesale child abuse, following the revelation that a thirteen-year-old
boy from the Ardoyne area has been "blackmailed by the discredited force
into working as a low level informer against his own community," said IRSP
representative in North Belfast, Paul Little.

"The IRSP have put the family in contact with a reputable human rights
lawyer, we have also contacted both the Irish and British governments with
a view to getting the child's case raised at the European Court of Human
Rights."

In conclusion the IRSP representative said:

"The actions of the RUC/PSNI are quite clearly in breach of the United
Nations charter on the protection of the child, as well as being illegal
both in Britain and Ireland. The IRSP would call on all children who have
been blackmailed in such circumstance to immediately tell their parents or
contact the local church, who will ensure that this insidious practice is
brought to end."

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