Pat O'Connell
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He was ex-Irish army.
He'd also been involved with the British Navy.
So he was somebody who on one level people thought was this, you know, very respectable character.
But when he got home, he was a very different man.
You know, he was a predator, an absolute predator.
Was she the only child?
I'm not sure.
I think it was a case that her mother stood by Harry Daly all the way through this.
And there was things that came out in court about her mother putting Sinead on contraception when she was 14 years old.
There was various different things that came out in that court case.
But basically, Shanita was left very much to fend for herself.
And she did fend for herself.
I mean, Shanita has turned what was an extraordinarily difficult experience into something positive.
She set up the survivors side by side group.
You know, on Facebook, where victims of abuse get to talk to each other and they get to help each other.
You know, if their abusers' trials are coming up, they can ask each other for advice.
And that is a huge help because not everybody is willing to, you know, not everybody is willing to talk to the official services and everything.
And I suppose having gone through the rest of justice and everything and having, she believed that, you know, he was living a life of quiet anonymity.
And then after we found all these images and everything, and I was speaking with Shanita,
And she went on this Buddy Sax website, you know, it was a shock for her to see this man living his best life, you know, like dancing in music videos and singing along with them and everything and having a follower, having a following on TikTok, you know, it wasn't, I suppose it wasn't the quiet thing.