A personal trainer who sexually assaulted a client and secretly filmed others during massages will be able to resume his work after serving his sentence, raising concerns about gaps in sex offender regulations. Rape Crisis Ireland says the case highlights the limitations of the sex offenders register and a lack of regulation for 'predatory' offenders in certain professions.
Rape Crisis Ireland says case of Shane Flynn is ‘wake-up call’ on gaps in regulations for ‘predatory’ sex offenders
Flynn’s work did not require him to be registered with any accreditation body, meaning he cannot be struck off. As he only worked with adults, rather than children, no vetting procedures apply to his form of work. Coru, the State regulator for health workers and social care professionals, had promised to expand its regulatory framework “for decades”, Dr Saidléar added. However, it “continues to fail to signal any sense of urgency or priority to tackling this issue even when faced with devastating consequences such as these”.said Coru opened its first register, for social workers, in 2011. It had since added an additional 12 registers, regulating 30,000 health and social care professionals.
However, even while on the register, he would be free to re-establish himself as self-employed. Garda sources said they strongly suspected Flynn would immediately try to re-establish himself as self-employed in fitness and rehabilitation on release.
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