Family calls on people of Listowel not to shun victim
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THE bother of convicted sex offender, Danny Foley, has called on the people of Listowel not to shun the victim in the case, saying it is not what he or his family would want.
Tim Foley, while insisting that he will fully support his brother in his appeal, says that people who wish to support Danny can do so without ostracising the woman who brought him to court.
"My own family and Danny himself would not want anything like that to happen. People can show their support for Danny in other ways," he said. "We don't want people taking things into their own hands and shunning someone. We are going to go through an appeals system. There is no need to shun anyone."
He also moved to dispel talk that those who came to shake his brother's hand in court before sentencing did so as some kind of orchestrated gesture to intimidate the victim, insisting it was spontaneous.
"Nobody organised anything," he said. "We went because we hadn't been able to contact him since he was found guilty. We wanted to shake hands with him – he's our brother, our son. People followed suit. It was a spontaneous reaction. We had no idea that girl was going to be in court," he said.
