There are calls for a public inquiry into the handling of sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland and the Scouting Association of Ireland.
Despite being reprimanded at the time for taking scouts to his home, he continued to do so. This led to a second complaint being brought to the attention of the CBSI almost a decade later in 1996. Scouting Ireland's review of its historic files of complaint, which was started in 2017, is not due to be published until February 2020.
The programme highlights, through a series of case studies, how some scout leaders in SAI and the CBSI were able to sexually abuse cubs and scouts for prolonged periods either without detection or when complaints were made, without referral to statutory authorities.
Last month he was convicted of the sexual assault of a further four people and received a six-and a-half year sentence. The programme reveals that a second convicted sex offender, James Leddy, was operating in the 49th Ardlea troop as patrol leader, at same time O'Brien was there. There is also another reason: Scouting Ireland took many years to review its own files of complaints, which were stored unopened for decades.
Instead it took a further five years, until 2017, for Scouting Ireland to employ child protection expert Ian Elliott to carry out a review of safeguarding procedures in the organisation, which included a review of all its files of complaints both historic and present.
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