John O’Mahoney, Garda assistant commissioner, said recently that 114 children who have been reported missing in the past five years are still missing. A staggering 106 of those 114 children were reported missing while in care of the State.
The Irish Independent reports that there is no way to compare these Irish figures to those overseas due to Irish “protocol” for record keeping. In addition to the 114 missing children, another 98 adults are still missing as well.
"The vast majority - and I can't give a specific figure - of those 114 children are either of African or Asian origin," said Mr O'Mahoney.
Speaking to the Oireachtas, O’Mahoney said that Interpol has been notified of all the missing children and that each case has been put on a “yellow notice database issued to police forces around the world.” Thus, O’Mahoney would be notified by other law enforcement agencies if any of the children are found.
According to detective chief superintendent John O'Driscoll of the Garda national immigration bureau, many cases of missing foreign national children had nothing to do with human trafficking.
In the past five years, there have been some 40,500 reports of missing people in Ireland. While that averages at around 8,000 reports a year, O’Mahoney believes that actual average of people missing per month is more around 4,000, taking into account multiple reports of the same person missing.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.ciaradexy | Apr 01, 2012, 06:48 AM EDT
Maybe the catholic church sold them to wealthy Americans again!
warlocks | Apr 01, 2012, 12:13 AM EDT
Glory be & saints preserve us I do. hope & Pray that the Tinkers haven't got thos missing children . or Maybe it could be our pedophile parish priests ?? those dirty Black arts
ciaradexy | Mar 31, 2012, 01:27 PM EDT
I see Portia hasnt bothered responding as she never does on issues of adoption.
ciaradexy | Mar 30, 2012, 06:24 PM EDT
There are NO children being given up for adoption in Ireland anymore. Children are being adopted from other countries such as Vietnam and Russia. Whats wrong with this? There are millions of children who need good homes. It is done legally between Ireland and these among other countries so whats the problem?
ciaradexy | Mar 30, 2012, 06:21 PM EDT
Portia, I AM ADOPTED!! So is my sister and brother and 2 of my cousins! I have an aunt who is fostering for over 20 years! Im well versed on adoption and fostering! Youre not Irish and youre not even in Ireland, how do you know whats going on here?
Portia777 | Mar 30, 2012, 11:23 AM EDT
PhlutiePhan Spot on.
Portia777 | Mar 30, 2012, 11:22 AM EDT
ciaradexy | Mar 29, 2012, 04:55 PM EDT Portia, what is wrong with you? Youre so anti-adoption and fostering and you just seem to bleat about it without elaborating on your view. Whats your deal? How much do you know? about the inside workings of the adoption and fostering INDUSTRY?
PhlutiePhan | Mar 30, 2012, 09:54 AM EDT
With this many children missing, especially of African and Asian origin, there should have been a "red flag" alert. From the experiences of Boys Town, Nebraska, as well as the Sandusky affair, there should be a note that this type of child is a target for prurient interests. In both of the mentioned instances, there were allegations of the "pimping out" of these children. There are long standing rumors and whispers of an international child abuse ring which extends into human trafficing. It was stated to a Dutch journalist by Van Der Sloop that he had sold the Holloway girl into slavery. This is messy and murky, especially in the U.S., and involves many high ranking officials who engage in the cover up of the truth. "The truth. You can't handle the truth." That is what Jack Nicholson remarked.
GeorgeDillon | Mar 30, 2012, 06:30 AM EDT
I had a posting on this topic (see response to it by ciaradexty below). But it has been removed. What fool at Irish Central decided to censor it? What's with the moronic censorship, Irish Central? You must start by censoring some of the semi-literate garbage your own columnists offer.
IrelandNorth | Mar 30, 2012, 06:10 AM EDT
Gee! I wonder does it have anything to do with economic cutbacks in the Health Services budget estimates, to free up some hard pressed taxpayers revenue returns to pay off gambling (investing?) bond holders. Ah yes! The glories of living in a open market liberal democracy where radical individualism trumps social conscience everytime.
Collette2 | Mar 30, 2012, 01:09 AM EDT
It will never happen again on Enda Kenny's watch anyway. The way he took on the establishment over our children, both church and state will ever more be vigiliant. His family should be proud of him.
ciaradexy | Mar 29, 2012, 05:25 PM EDT
George, Im sure youd just cast these kids out onto the streets anyway so you should be happy they vanished. You'd hate them cos they arent ''ethnically irish'' as we constantly hear from you.
ciaradexy | Mar 29, 2012, 04:55 PM EDT
Portia, what is wrong with you? Youre so anti-adoption and fostering and you just seem to bleat about it without elaborating on your view. Whats your deal?
Murph46 | Mar 29, 2012, 11:43 AM EDT
Lets see 106 of 114 are missing? Sounds like typical govt.care!
Portia777 | Mar 29, 2012, 09:31 AM EDT
Just wave your social worker badge and you are untouchable- even the Gardai won't touch them.
Portia777 | Mar 29, 2012, 09:30 AM EDT
No surprise here .So care is so wonderful that the corporate PARENT looses them? Really, I do not believe a word of it. Those agents in the system know fine well how to legally traffic children. I would look within the system for the FACILITATORS.