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“I don’t think anybody has ever seen any sexual abuse victim treated as viciously… it was appalling,” says former Irish senator Máiría Cahill, who in 2014 went public with claims of sexual abuse at the hands of a prominent IRA member.
Cahill, who grew up in west Belfast, a “republican stronghold”, was just 16 years old when the abuse started. “I knew without a shadow of a doubt that he was an IRA member,” she says of the alleged abuser, who asked her to “move guns” just days before the first assault. After confiding in three women, Cahill says members of the IRA summoned her for questioning about the abuse, later putting her face to face with her abuser to “see who was telling the truth”.
In her new memoir Rough Beast: My Story and The Reality of Sinn Féin, Cahill lays bare the devastating impact of the abuse and the trauma of the subsequent IRA ‘investigation’. She explains how her abuser, who was charged with rape and sexual assault, was acquitted when the case against him collapsed.
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