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GARDAÍ HAVE ARRESTED three men as part of their investigations into suspected online romance and investment fraud.
The arrests were made by gardaí from the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) during search operations in West Dublin and in Navan.
Victims of romance fraud scams usually meet fraudsters through dating websites. The fraudsters set up fake profiles and build a relationship with their victims, gaining their trust and eventually asking for money, sometimes for travelling costs to come see them, for emergency medical expenses or for business opportunities.
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It’s understood one of the victims in this case was convinced to transfer large sums of cash to accounts in Ireland, Turkey, Dubai and Vietnam over a nine month period, having met fraudsters online via a dating site.
Detective Superintendent Michael Cryan (GNECB) said this is “a novel investigation as the senders of such emails have never been arrested in Ireland before”.
“To date, the belief would always have been that criminal groups engaged in this activity are operating from outside this jurisdiction. This investigation shows that this is not always the case.
“It is anticipated that numerous injured parties from all over the world will now be identified. We would encourage other victims of this type of fraud to report incidents to local gardaí.”
The three men are currently detained under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2007 at garda stations in West Dublin and can be held for up to seven days. A number of devices were also seized for examination during today’s operation.
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It keeps referring to child and children. I certainly don’t consider a 15+yr old a child. Especially in physical terms. These days they’re big as houses. Of course they have to be restrained for everyones safety including their own.
Oh boo hoo. Are we supposed to be upset that a kid sent to one of these centres (for, presumably, breaking the law, behaving antisocially, being violent, or any number of potential offences) was restrained?
Next you’ll be telling me they’re locked up in these detention centres and not allowed to leave.
It takes a hell of a lot of law breaking to occur for one of these little ingrates to wind up there in the first place. Sometimes behavioural Management simply doesn’t work
I was talking to a 16 year old over weekend ago was only out of Oberstown recently. I know him well and he was only there after a couple of years on a crime spree. Judges have him chance after chance and he laughed about it.
And it wasn’t pretty offences. Robbery and serious assaults were involved.
He told me Oberstown was good craic. If staff annoy you then you threaten them or complain about them to make their jobs harder.
Point being this lad was violent and 6’4 and weighs 15 stone. Maybe HIQA should deal with him for a week instead of analysing everything those poor staff do to protect themselves and others.
These are not kids in the normal sense. They are violent,uneducated thugs,who don’t understand the word NO and have no moral or social skills what so ever.
And regardless of the reason’s for all of the above and who may be responsible for them turning out like this ,the staff in oberstown are dealing with kid prisoners and should be treated as such. Well done the staff
I see a staff member was injured in the incident. Perhaps a more appropriate title might be “violent teen thug injures staff member at detention center”. Oh wait, that doesn’t shed as many years from the bleeding hearts.
The article doesn’t say what age the “child” was , if child could harm or kill another child or member of staff then they must restrain. I’m sure the restraining was all over the place as it’d not easy to restrain someone who is violent without injury to yourself or the person you are attempting to restrain.
The staff are in an impossible position and will always be open to criticism no matter what they do.
I was initially annoyed about this restraint but as posted,these precautions are taken to protect staff and patient .
If he self harmed or stabbed an officer/staff member then people would be baying that he should have been restrained.
Some of these youths are seriously violent and capable of extreme violence.
It’s all right and good for the desk jockey in hiqa to say the poor child shouldn’t of been restrained etc other methods bla bla bla.
Would they think the same if they were dealing with a repeat offender who may be 16 but about 6ft and has been scrapping his whole life!
Load of crap!!!
Prison officer job for juveniles I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole
Remember all the criticism that was thrown at the Prison Officers in St Patricks when dealing with “Children” aged 17 to 21.
Now the chickens have come home to roost. Emily Logan and Judge Reilly have a lot to answer for.
The staff in Oberstown and Trinity House work for the Dept of Education. They have a completely different set of rules and guidelines when dealing with violent prisoners that those Prison Officers are trained to use. And as a result I understand that staff on sick leave in Oberstown is through the roof.
Ask any adult prisoner that had gone through St Patricks and they will tell you they hated the place. Strict discipline and zero tolerance were the order of the day. Unfortunately with Oberstown staff are required to use the softly softly approach and kid gloves with teenagers that have been through the courts multiple times and are deemed such a danger to the public that they require detention.
David. Apart from the training that these staff receive (which is of little of little value when dealing with large violently aggressive teenagers) they are bound by a set of rules and regulations that are designed by people that have very little or no dealings with the type of criminal the Staff on the floor are confronted with.
When was the last time a Government Minister or senior Civil Servant had to wrestle with a 6’2″ 15 stone highly aggressive and violent “Child”?
Maria. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that these teenagers are bright eyed fair haired little angels.
They are vicious aggressive and dangerous scrotes. They have been sent to Oberstown as a last resort after going through the hands of multiple agencies and multiple court appearances and it has been decided that they pose such a danger to the public that they need to be incarcerated in a secure unit.
What you need to ask is why was this youngster kept in lock down? Was he off his head on illegal narcotics? Was he a danger to staff or other Kids? And if he was any of the above and caused injury to someone would you not be asking why was he not isolated?
Full of drugs I’d imagine …. Probabally refusing to give them up . Danger of 10 or 20 been like him if let out .. Uncontrollable violent manic frenzied danger to himself and others .
,only one thing left or allowed to do .. After all else fails had to be done
This is surely a messed up situation. .finding it odd that majority of comments talk about ‘thugs’ etc.. no sympathy for these under 18′s for whatever may have lead them to a life in care.. It isn’t always the fault of the ‘child’ . Not to say it isn’t sometimes. . But I’ve seen firsthand where two young kids were failed numerous times by people who were educated in caring for children in care.. despite the very best efforts of foster families, these kids are walking the thin line between lawful and lawless.. They haven’t decided to be thugs per se but years of both physical & physiological torture have shaped them that way.
# Mrs B …. there is nothing in the article to say those kids are in care, they have been taken off the streets because they present a danger to the public, there are in the criminal system or remanded.
Hugs for everyone so. Maybe you can take them in, do a Pippa on it. She had a right good track record with them. Except for Dodge. I hated Dodge.
Who’s fault is it so? I’d be pretty sure that if you or your loved ones were assaulted or robbed by one of them you’d be singing a different tune. They’re not there for taking Hunky Dorys from Mary’s Corner Shop.
Mrs b. You would make an excellent social worker. They tend to have over the top dogoodery. The child is the victim blah blah blah. What that child never had and so desperately needs is a size 12 boot up the *******
That child was never from day one shown discipline. Once you get to the age of 5 you have learned most your ever going to learn as you are a sponge till then. Your brain forms the basis of your personality.
It’s safe to say a 17 year old getting a kick won’t change his criminal future ut it will scare him to do something stupid again. If he does…. Consequences. That being locked in room for days on end.
These are not nice people. There is not one who will “turn their life around” they are there because they committed multiple serious crimes and I mean multiple from rape to stealing cars to burglaries.
The only chance they have is some serious full metal jacket boot camp training.
This is the place that Emily Logan wanted the kids from st pats to go to because the staff were abusing them??? Might be the so called kids are just out of control, dangerous and violent???
Reading the comments here it’s obvious many posters support the abuse of children. I hear the Christan Brothers are doing a recruitment drive and I’m sure they’d welcome many of the posters here. These posters idea of professional child care includes tasers, handcuffs, restraints and not a little violence.
Perhaps these posters are on the wrong story – seems to me they arrived here ‘accidentally’ via a report on Fifty Shades of Grey !!!!
How would you deal with a violent 6ft, 14 stone child that is losing the rag and violently attacking a colleague of yours????
Bear in mind that that you also have 9 more children in the room with you and maybe 1 colleague aswell????
What has your question got to do with the article? Did you pick that question out of thin air or what? Do read the article and, for heaven’s sake, keep up!
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