{"id":10447,"date":"2015-10-16T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:27","slug":"breaking-significant-progress-in-the-two-continent-fight-to-bring-rapist-irish-olympic-swim-coach-george-gibney-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=10447","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Significant Progress in the Two-Continent Fight to Bring Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney to Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Oireachtas Deputy (Irish Parliament member) Maureen O’Sullivan has told Concussion Inc. that important new legal research buttresses the efforts there to get the director of public prosecutions (D.P.P.) to reopen proceedings against George Gibney — the former Irish national swim teach coach who is named in literally dozens of allegations of molesting underage athletes in his charge, and who has been living as a resident alien in the United States since the mid-1990s.
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The information from O’Sullivan comes as I remain optimistic about my Freedom of Information Act litigation in federal court to force the Department of Homeland Security to release scores of pages from the file on Gibney which is being kept by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The file is acknowledged to include records from law enforcement agencies. More below on this aspect of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon being told by the designated point person for the Garda, the Irish national police, that finding justification for revisiting the Gibney matter would be an uphill fight, O’Sullivan commissioned legal research on Irish Supreme Court cases bearing on prosecutorial discretion in sex crimes from the distant past. We’ll publish the full research at a later date. Here are some highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n