UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND
The Times
December 28 2017
By Ed Carty
Proposed new legislation to ban paedophiles and sex offenders from foreign travel is to be unveiled in the new year.
Plans to expand the passport “stop list” have been drafted after Father Shay Cullen, the four-time Nobel peace prize nominee, called on western governments to tackle sex tourism.
Father Cullen, who has been working with street children in the Philippines since 1974, said paedophiles should be barred from going overseas in the same way as suspected terrorists.
“I expect the Irish people and the Dáil will support it and set an example for other EU countries,” he said.
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