About our CEO/Founder

 

Evin M. Daly

Our Founder and CEO Evin Daly is a child protection and abuse prevention advocate, activist and spokesperson. He has had a life-long connection to child abuse issues in Ireland and the U.S., and is a hands-on fighter in combating child exploitation and promoting child protection.

Background
Mr. Daly is a behavior analyst and a forensic interviewer and interrogator. His focus is on the perpetrators and victims of child abuse and domestic violence. Evin received specialized training in forensic behavioral analysis (FBA) from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) in London - affiliated with the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) - with emphasis on the behaviors of sex offenders who abuse children.

The FBA training included studying offender motivation, assessment, treatment, and management. He is qualified in sexual offender recidivism risk assessment (3rd generation) - Sexual Violence Risk (SVR-20) and the assessment and treatment of sex offenders (Salter). He is trained in the use of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), (Meloy/Hare). Evin has a Postgraduate Cert in Forensic Behavioral Psychology from the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, and he is a member of the Association for Behavioral Analysis International (ABAI)

As a forensic interviewer and interrogator, Mr. Daly has worked with victims, families and perpetrators of child abuse and domestic violence. He is also a forensic interviewer of children who have been sexually and physically abused [CornerHouse Child Sexual Abuse Forensic Interview Training - RATAC^®, (More about RATAC® click), Extended Forensic Interview Protocol (National Children’s Advocacy Center)]. He has studied advanced techniques for interviewing sex offenders who target children at CEOP in London.

Evin's certification in factual analysis, interviewing, and interrogation was received from Reid & Associates (advanced), Wicklander-Zulawski (Certified Forensic Interviewer) and CEOP (UK). He is a member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)

Getting the Message out
Mr. Daly retired from business in 2003 to concentrate on philanthropic projects. As a communications specialist in advertising and emerging technology marketing he uses his expertise to improve child welfare and safety. Harnessing modern technology, and using proven traditional methods, he ensures awareness and prevention information is easily available to as wide an audience as possible.

Child Protection – tough sentencing for offenders
Evin is a proponent of tough mandatory sentencing for those who perpetrate violence against children, child rape, violent molestation, and the production, distribution and possession of images of the sexual abuse of infants and children (child pornography).

He rejects outright culturally acceptable child abuse – physical punishment, education deprivation, marriage of child brides; their subsequent rape and impregnation, female genital mutilation, the wholesale rape of boys in the Arabic and Persian Middle East (Man-love Thursdays). He vigorously supports programs that bring basic human rights to every child.  

Guardian ad Litem
Evin is a long-time volunteer Guardian ad Litem in the 15th Judicial Circuit in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he focuses on severe child neglect casework. Guardians represent the interests of abused, abandoned and neglected children in court. Under the authority of a court order they investigate abuse cases and provide the judge with an independent report of findings and recommendations for the child. In 2006 he was awarded the Guardian ad Litem of the Year award for the 15th JC.

Awards
In 2009 Mr. Daly launched the biannual One Child annual Child Advocate awards which recognize the exceptional work done on behalf of children by individuals and groups (see awards).

In 2009 he and One Child were awarded the ‘Junny Award’ by Protect our Children Inc., in Florida, for their efforts in a campaign against Hewlett Packard.

Media
Mr. Daly writes and lectures frequently on abuse topics and is a sought after source, and resource, in the media on child abuse-related subjects. Evin has been interviewed and featured on TV, satellite and commercial radio and print media world-wide. He ensures that One Child International and Child AbuseWatch follows its mantra of ‘speaking out for those who can’t – children.’

Background in Ireland see Case Study: St. John's School (here)