{"id":192521,"date":"2025-12-15T06:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:51:08","slug":"we-thought-he-wouldnt-touch-us-that-day-as-our-mother-had-just-died-we-were-wrong-twin-sisters-waive-anonymity-to-name-abuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192521\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We thought he wouldn\u2019t touch us that day as our mother had just died. We were wrong\u2019 \u2013 twin sisters waive anonymity to name abuser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Both women say they have spoken to other people abused by Michael Griffin who will never come forward\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"L-R: Mary and Regina Cooney outside court at the senentinc hearing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8030be62-9440-4241-b35a-b6c84f697de4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">L-R: Mary and Regina Cooney outside court at the senentinc hearing<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mary Cooney really hoped her abuser would keep his hands to himself that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The nine-year-old\u2019s mother had recently died and, as Michael Griffin appeared in the kitchen, the thoughts of another sexual assault filled the little girl with dread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both women say they have spoken to other people abused by Michael Griffin who will never come forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48326,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-192521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-fegan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}