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Suzanne Delaney reports a connection between a murder in the prior week and a new case in which a 10-year-old Irish child was raped by an African asylum seeker in his thirties at an IPAS center in City West, Dublin. She explains why the Irish child could be at an IPAS center and connects this to broader concerns about outsourcing care for vulnerable people to private contractors.
Key points raised:
- Public-private partnerships and unregulated SCA (special emergency arrangement) providers have placed vulnerable children at risk of sex trafficking. Tusla has paid 215,000,000 to unregulated SCAs, with Beg and Mirza Health Services receiving a total of 41,000,000 and operating the apartment where the Ukrainian was stabbed over 100 times by a Somali asylum seeker last week. Directors/CEOs of Beg and Mirza are Mohammed Usain Beg and Farhan Mirza.
- Unregulated SCAs provide care in hotel rooms, apartments, and Airbnbs, sometimes with unvetted staff. Some background checks have reportedly been falsified; an African pastor and his wife were involved in such falsifications and did not receive prison sentences.
- Allegations of children going missing from these placements, being sex trafficked, and not adequately supervised. She draws parallels to UK cases of grooming and trafficking (Rotherham, Rochdale) to suggest similar patterns.
- A 12-year-old boy with severe disabilities was targeted by gangs; referenced in a paper titled “Protecting against predators: an exploratory study on the sexual exploitation of children and young people in Ireland,” noting similarities to UK predator networks targeting vulnerable girls.
- A 14-year-old African child in care for one hour was found a year later in a brothel, having been raped hundreds or thousands of times.
- Unregulated SCAs not reporting rape or exploitation cases, potentially to protect lucrative contracts; staff in SEAs may be involved in trafficking, and there is a view that the state’s system hides these problems to avoid public oversight.
- HICWA inspections reportedly found unvetted staff and neglect, abuse, and isolation among children in SEAs. Tusla is said to knowingly place adult male asylum seekers claiming to be children in SCAs with actual children and in schools when backgrounds are untraceable.
- Delaney references a prior video about how a 10-year-old Irish child could be raped at an IPAS center by an unvetted African male asylum seeker, and laments the transfer of taxpayers’ wealth to SEAs instead of providing safe, cost-effective state accommodation for traumatized, vulnerable children.
- She claims political and media silence on these issues, accuses politicians and media of looking backward yet continuing the status quo, and alleges covering up by public figures and entities including Catherine Connolly, Heather Humphreys, the government, media, NGOs, and an “Open Borders Brigade.”
- She notes the cancellation of a child law project by Roderick O’Gorman to prevent public oversight in Tusla, and offers condolences to the vulnerable girl who was raped, recognizing that similar cases will continue without change.
- She ends with a personal appeal to stand up for children in care, stating her own child’s safety underscores the urgency.