: Eve McDowell, Senator Lisa Chambers, Una Ring, Senator Fiona O’Loughlin. Image: The Journal : Eve McDowell, Senator Lisa Chambers, Una Ring, Senator Fiona O’Loughlin. Image: The Journal VICTIM SUPPORT GROUP Stalking Ireland has said a new bill to make stalking a specific offence in law for the first time would make it easier for gardaí to investigate.
The act criminalises an individual interfering in another person’s peace by persistently following, watching, pestering, besetting or communicating with them. “As distinct from harassment, it’s repeated unwanted behavior, it’s not just communication, because in Eve’s case there was no direct communication through text messages or phone calls or even speaking to her. Una had a different experience,” the Senator said.
Harassment is more of an annoyance, stalking is very, very sinister. The end result of stalking is either rape or murder. Whereas the end result for somebody harassing somebody is about getting inside someone’s head and freaking them out. “When you’re tidying up your house before you go to bed for crime scene photographs that may need to be taken. When you’re thinking of getting a tattoo on your body to identify your remains if that happens, that’s not harassment, that is being stalked.
#Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to youSenator Chambers said the new bill would also mean that this 10-year sentence should apply to those convicted of stalking.
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