I'm not trying to make a criminal case, I'm just casting doubt on your assertion that it was investigated, with the knowledge of how other cases were 'investigated' at the time.
I don't have to prove that any crime was committed, though statutory rape seems most likely.
Granard was a small town Mattie under the firm grip of the church. They possibly didn't want the bad reputation that would have followed such a revelation.
I don't know if you remember the nun from Anne Lovett's school speaking after the tragedy. I don't think she could have been colder or more unfeeling in her statement. A speak your weight machine would have shown more feeling imo.
It will be fascinating to see where this goes. If they are the people responsible it beggers belief that they could have stood by while Joanne Hayes went through all of this
So the people of granard decided they didn't want the publicity associated with this? Maybe do, but that's not a hush up.
Yes, I've heard the nuns speech ( I don't remember it from the time) and it was awful.
As someone pointed out above, it could also have been incest, which is also a crime.Back to the fundamental question though of what is it that you want investigated?
You are asking why the guards didn't investigate this as rape or child abuse. The answer is because there was no evidence of rape or child abuse, and there was no victim to make a complaint.
This case has always shocked me. Practically medieval type witch hunt.
Basically the local slut was blamed for having a still born baby and the guards/church constructed a narrative that she had twins fathered by different men who she had sex with very close together.
I could never really understand it.
Beggars belief and its not that long ago.
Ultimately a new born child was killed and nobody ever found or the circumstances never fully explai
True. The gardaí would never behave like that today.
Locals closed ranks all these years
Sorry Mattie.
What I meant was that the church didn't want the publicity for their "holy, catholic town".
LLS was on Saturday, Emily O'Reilly for the Sunday Tribune wrote the initial report after going to the funeral in Granard.
The boyfriend was a teenager of a similar age, he came forward a couple of years ago.
He moved to England soon after iirc, but I don't know whether it was ever properly investigated at the time.
edit - according to wikipedia, in his interview
ok, nothing to see here, move along folks.
The death was pretty much hushed up at first.
Were the circumstances of how she got pregnant investigated? I don't know, tragic story though.
FBI involvement(directly) maybe spurred the boys in blue on yo actually investigateI'd imagine DNA of those in positions of authority at the time might suffice.
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