{"id":2929,"date":"2016-07-05T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2016-07-05T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:57:16","slug":"pretty-smiles-and-pigtails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/pretty-smiles-and-pigtails\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Smiles and Pigtails – The Mary Boyle Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pretty<\/a>
Pretty smile and pigtails – Mary Boyle was just a girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Watching Gemma O’Doherty’s documentary on the missing child Mary Boyle nearly forty years ago is chilling, with interference at a political level with policing, and a suspect free to prey since on other vunerable young children.<\/p>\n

This highlights the fact that abuse of children is most prevailent among the family and immediate circle, not just among the clergy, unlike the impression one would get from the media.<\/p>\n

The documentary is at the bottom of the page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She was just a girl, pretty smile and pigtails
\nShe was just a girl the louder of the twins
\nShe was just a girl of six summers and more to come
\nShe was just a girl of childish giggles and impish grins
\nFor whom the next day was an exciting adventure…<\/p>\n

She was just a girl for whom Santy was still real
\nShe was just a girl for whom life was just to play
\nShe was just a girl for whom trust was a given
\nShe was just a girl for whom tomorrow was a new day
\nBut she was to have no tomorrow…<\/p>\n

She was just a girl who had been out playing
\nShe was just a girl visiting her grandparents place
\nShe was just a girl living lives as children do
\nShe was just a girl who disappeared without a trace.
\nAll went searching…<\/p>\n

She was just a girl for whom all the people were looking
\nShe was just a girl whose sisters life was wrecked
\nShe was just a girl who lost her life, people knew how they thought and talked
\nShe was just a girl who was unimportant unlike the suspect
\nSo said the phonecall to the Guards.<\/p>\n

Forty years and counting, forty summers waiting
\nNo fibre, no clothing, no body, only tears
\nForty years of interference, influence and indignant
\nNo thought of other victims who keep silent from their fears.
\nBecause most only think the church does that kind of thing.<\/p>\n

Dead priests, dead boys, missing women and girls
\nOur island holds it secrets very well
\nThe wrongdoers are free onto others to fo wrong
\nAs bad are those who know and refuse to tell.
\nRemember… she was just a girl…<\/p>\n

This is Gemma O’Doherty’s documentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0vGORoCbpXw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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