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Date Posted: 21:54:33 01/14/05 Fri GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: Ireland on alert after child's slaying (Hartford Courant)

vhttp://www.ctnow.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ireland-slain-boy,0,5994166.story

Ireland on Alert After Child's Slaying
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Associated Press Writer

January 13 2005, 4:23 PM EST

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Police confirmed Thursday that a body found in a wooded ravine is that of an 11-year-old boy abducted last week, fanning fears among parents in Ireland, a country with little experience of deadly abductions of children.
Robert Holohan's body was discovered Wednesday in a ravine near a beach 11 miles east of the boy's home in Midleton, County Cork. More than 1,000 people had searched for Robert, who disappeared Jan. 4 after going for a ride on his new bicycle, a Christmas present.
Ireland's senior state pathologist, Dr. Marie Cassidy, examined the body for possible DNA traces of the boy's killer.
Police Superintendent Kevin Donohue said a 50-strong detective team had interviewed several dozen convicted sex offenders living in the Cork area, but not arrests had been made.
He declined to provide information about specific wounds or any evidence of sexual abuse, citing the ongoing investigation.
The local Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Billy O'Donovan, who spent much of Thursday with Robert's parents and two siblings, said the family members "are still strong. Distraught, upset -- but strong."
Cork councilman Maurice Ahern said many parents were refusing to let their children play unsupervised anymore. Another local lawmaker, Joe Sherlock, said the killing had "shocked the entire nation," and called for the government and police to identify "steps that can be taken to provide further protection for our children."
Ireland's national newspapers, which made the search for Robert front-page news for the past week, carried editorials Thursday reflecting the nationwide grief and worry.
However, The Irish Times urged parents not "to make hasty changes in lifestyle."
"Children are, for the most part, safe in rural as well as urban areas," it said. "Overbearing shielding from an imperfect world will not produce in the future adults any more capable of coping with inexplicable horrors than we are now."
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On the Net:
Site on missing Irish people, http://www.missing.ws/

Copyright 2005 Associated Press
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