Sister of victim of paedophile Philip Sullivan on her fight for reform after brother's death

On the 13th of April, convicted child rapist Philip Sullivan was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.

The sixty-three-year-old had already served time in prison.

He was handed down two life sentences in 2008 for the rape and sexual assault of two young boys, aged nine and 11, between 2004 and 2006.

The Kildare man appealed the sentence, and it was squashed.

Instead, he got concurrent sentences of 15 years, with the final two and a half years suspended for 10 years on strict conditions, including that Sullivan not be in the company of minors.

He was released in 2017, and last February, after a tip-off, he was found at his home in Rathmines in Dublin in the company of three teenage boys, breaking those bail conditions.

Today, Jenny Friel talks to Ciara Griffin, whose younger brother, Shane Griffin, was one of Sullivan's earlier victims.

Despite the chaos and horrors he experienced during his childhood, Shane became a passionate advocate for kids in the care system.

But after Sullivan's release in 2017, he struggled to cope, and in 2019, he took his own life.

Ciara is determined to carry on some of the work Shane started and is campaigning for changes in how sex offenders are sentenced for their crimes.

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