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Wikileaks: Children under care of Irish government ended up in brothels

Government agency admits they didn’t keep track of numbers

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CATHY HAYES,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Saturday, June 4, 2011, 7:40 AM
Updated Saturday, June 4, 2011, 7:48 AM

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Children who have gone missing from Irish state care over the last few years have ended up in brothels.


US embassy cables, revealed via Wikileaks, show that children who have gone missing from Irish state care over the last three years have ended up working as sex slaves in brothels. During a private briefing with diplomats from the American Embassy, in Dublin, the Health Service Executive (HSE) made this shocking admission.

The cables showed that foreign-born children, who were under the care of the HSE, went missing and ended up in the sex-trade as far back as 2008. The HSE made these admissions while US diplomats were conducting research for an annual report into people trafficking in Ireland.

The HSE told diplomats that some foreign children had been retraced to brothels, restaurants and private households where they were being used as slaves. According to reports in the Irish Independent, the children were found in various towns throughout Ireland.

HSE officials, also terrifyingly, admitted that they were not keeping statistics on the numbers. A HSE briefing, in February 2009, said gardai had located two children, both missing from HSE care, working in the sex industry.

The annual report was forwarded to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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The cables showed that HSE officials believe Chinese children were at greatest risk. The HSE also said that traffickers bringing these children to Ireland were most likely non-national, and had preyed on their compatriots.

In Ireland, if a child under the age of 17, arrives in Ireland without a parent or guardian, they are automatically placed in foster care or in a hostel facility run by the HSE. Every year dozens of children go missing. It is suspected that they end up with the traffickers who brought them into the country in the first place.

Irish police maintain that traffickers were actually targeting Ireland due to the ease with which children can escape from HSE facilities.

Briefings received by the US embassy between 2006 and 2008 indicated that there was no evidence to point to the fact that children were being trafficked into the sex trade. However, the HSE now acknowledges that children are in fact being trafficked into the sex trade in Ireland.

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Towngate | Jun 09, 2011, 05:33 AM EDT
As if prostitution was new to Holy Ireland! The Irish have been well able to look after themselves in this matter long before the Chinese and Nigerians were heard of! Every city and town had a 'known area' for such activities and Dublin famously had the Montgomery Street district (Monto), and of course Biddy Milligan - the pride of The Coombe, and 'Half-a-dollar Mary' from Ringsend! Yep!~ the Oldest Profession. Take it or leave it - just don't get all Holy about it!
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kaydog1 | Jun 08, 2011, 06:26 PM EDT
The ironic timing of this article is just too delicious. In the US we get a surprising number of unaccompanied children arriving by plane who discard the fake papers they use to get aboard the plane and then ask at ICE for refugee status and asylum. They generally claim to not know where their parents are and further claim that their plane tickets were provided by vague "friends" they have encountered in their travels, kind strangers who "gave" them tickets from Africa or Asia, and forged papers, with no strings attached. (These tickets would cost thousands of US Dollars to purchase.) Having lied to the airlines regarding their falsified papers in order get on the plane, these children are confined at secure detention centers while their "asylum" cases are considered. I occasionally have professional duties to perform at one nearby facility, and it was irritating to just last week listen to a Leftist Immigration "Rights" Attorney discussing with a Leftist Volunteer Social Worker how it was "WRONG" to lock these con artists up "as if they were criminals", and how we should instead be placing them with local families and churches "like they do in Ireland." I can't wait to share this story with these morons.
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GeorgeDillon | Jun 08, 2011, 09:33 AM EDT
Interesting article in the Irish newspapers today. It seems that the US Embassy reported back to base that Chinese triad gangs are behind much of the sex trafficking in Ireland. Also, "intelligence reports obtained by the US embassy gave details of Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese and West African involvement in various organised criminal activity in Ireland." Ah, the joy of Mass Immigration and Wide Open Door immigration policy. Wonderful isn't it. Just in case Ireland doesn't have enough criminals it has to import more from abroad! And the Irish are way too stupid to take on these guys.
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Towngate | Jun 08, 2011, 03:42 AM EDT
No, you Geo-prat. I said I wanted it to have a good wash, that's all. You really must try and resist judging others by your own delicate mental status.
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GeorgeDillon | Jun 08, 2011, 02:51 AM EDT
Towngate says he wants Ireland to be destroyed by a tsunami. Bit disappointed when the world didn't end a couple weeks back, eh towngate?
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Towngate | Jun 07, 2011, 05:28 PM EDT
Poor sad old demented GeorgeDillon. Inhabiting a world of dopes,hypocrites,fools and madmen. It must be a horrible life for him. I wonder why he bothers ...
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GeorgeDillon | Jun 07, 2011, 04:27 PM EDT
esat: What a fool you are. You blame De Valera in 1937 for child abuse by Nigerians in 2011? You're a madman.
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GeorgeDillon | Jun 07, 2011, 04:27 PM EDT
Towngate: "Decent people" like you, we assume. You big hypocrite...
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GeorgeDillon | Jun 07, 2011, 04:25 PM EDT
esatdiwan: They're foreign children, not "children of the nation", you dope. Of course they should be protected while in Ireland, but Ireland is not where they should be.
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esatdigiwank | Jun 07, 2011, 10:58 AM EDT
this is what our antiquated constitution calls 'cherishing all the children of the nation equally'. A constitution drawn up by a 'Soldier of infamy' And an ARchbishop.
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Towngate | Jun 07, 2011, 09:38 AM EDT
Child abuse is embedded in the Irish psyche and society. It cannot be denied. It is not just a recent immigration issue. Many real horrors are yet to come to light - 'children to order' supplied by those charged with protecting them to the Big Houses and lonely farmers alike! Maybe Holy Ireland needs a giant tsunami to cleanse it so decent people can start again....
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CeiliGoddess | Jun 06, 2011, 03:38 PM EDT
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CJECoyne | Jun 06, 2011, 12:26 PM EDT
I am totally disgusted by the inaction of the government along with the Catholic Church. For the church to use funds is shocking. Sorry to say that I am ashamed of my Catholic Irish roots.
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Collette2 | Jun 06, 2011, 06:57 AM EDT
Lets hope these children aren't servicing any Catholic Irishmen, that's all I can say.
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AliceBernadette | Jun 06, 2011, 05:31 AM EDT
Leahforce to reply to your comment. I'm Irish descent but don't live in Ireland. I think most people are of course concerned for the children but a lot of this problem is caused by non-nationals. There should be severe sentences for anyone abusing children. I definitely agree with you there should be consequences. People should be given a long prison sentence and if not an Irish citizen deported. There is abuse of children in all countries unfortunately but hopefully people are now much more aware and do what we can to see that these abusers are punished.
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