Child Abuse & uk Sport

international | crime and justice | other press Sunday September 18, 2005 13:33 by etc...

"A report, compiled by the government-backed Independent Football Commission after an 18-month investigation, discloses that 250 suspected child abuse cases are being probed by the Football Association and that two more allegations are being investigated at Premiership clubs. It also reveals that a further four cases of suspected child abuse have been investigated at Premiership clubs since 2003."

read the complete article in today's Observer:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1572711,00.html

UK support group involved in the investigation:

http://www.phoenixsurvivors.com/

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The theme of institutional systematic abuse of children has been to the fore in Irish media this week as well :-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71990

Sport which offers youngsters so much on so many levels (individual physical development, team skills, healthy competive values), is also increasingly seen as the primary medium through which racism and non-social values are learnt and spread.

there can be no doubt that these allegations might be made in irish sports clubs as well.