Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Does anyone ever consider what it must feel like to live in an intolerant, prejudiced society that constantly denies your right to exist; to sit silently in company while all around you people are baying for your blood? Every voice, every politician, journalist and media outlet are loud and constant in their demands for your eradication from society.
Such is life today for all those who are unfortunate to have been conceived by rape. It’s a heavy burden knowing that your father was a rapist, made intolerably worse by the prevailing attitude of Irish society who acts as if you are the guilty one, a contamination on their lives, with rarely a mention of the criminal who happens to be your father.
As the child at the centre of the ‘Y’ case grows up, how will he feel as he watches politicians, celebrities and journalists, together with thousands of marchers, all demanding his death?
Yours etc.,
Maureen Sherlock,
Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.