Ciara Dempsey’s story of abuse and survival

from Oliver Callan · host RTÉ Radio 1

Oliver speaks to Ciara Dempsey, who was 14 when she was groomed by a man almost three times her age. Nearly twenty years on, she’s speaks out for the first time about that abuse and her survival.

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