Labour TD shares story of woman ‘literally being kicked out of her home’ in Drogheda
Louth TD Ged Nash told a story in the Dáil of a woman being kicked out of her home, and party leader Ivana Bacik called for a review of the practice of suspended sentences for gender-based violence and for increased urgency in the development of the sentencing guidelines. Photograph: Conor Ó Mearáin/Collins Photo AgencyTD has told the Dáil of an incident in which he encountered a woman who had just suffered a violent attack at the hands of her partner.
Ms Bacik quoted Ms O’Brien, who had told her what she wanted from the criminal justice system is “common humanity”. She said the Judicial Council had made a database available to judges on every sentencing judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal, as well as sentencing handbooks, to try to ensure the court system better protects and supports victims and survivors.
Ms Tully said that in certain parts of the country, when a woman goes to the Family Law Court seeking an extension of a barring order and finds out that a certain judge is sitting, “they don’t bother, because the judge always sides with the man”.
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