Gibney
update
Appeal to find victims of swimming coach
(Sunday Times 041810)
Appeal For Gibney Victims To Step Up
(Swim News 041910)
Locals and police up vigil after warning on alleged abuser
Gibney
(Sunday Tribune 032810)
Child protection group seeks extradition of George Gibney
(Irish Times March 26 2010)
Orange City residents see Gibney as significant threat to
local children
(I Times
03/26/10)
Location:
Enterprise Cove, Orange City, Florida (March 2010 confirmed)
Address:
850
Enterprise Cove Ave,
Orange City, FL 32763-8370
Drives a silver Honda:
Florida License Plate: X05 4GX
Gibney is an Outside Guard of the Knights of Columbus
(Annunciation K of C Council 12761),
Annunciation Catholic Church, 1020 Montgomery Road,
Altamonte Springs, FL.32714
George Gibney's history from an
article by Justine McCarthy and the Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
March 2007: One of CII's (Council of International
Investigators) members, Ed Kelly, of Intercoastal
Investigations in San Francisco has been tracking down one
of the bad guys for over the last year and recently tracked
him from California to Florida . As they say, you can run,
but you cannot hide. By Justine McCarthy, reprinted
from the Sunday Tribune
ALLEGED child rapist George Gibney has returned to the scene
of one of his most horrific crimes where he is leading an
untroubled life in the sunshine. The Sunday Tribune has
tracked down the former national and Olympics swimming coach
to the state of Florida where, it is alleged, he held a
young swimmer captive in a locked hotel room and raped her
in July 1991. While the woman continues to undergo
intensive medical treatment in Dublin for the trauma she
suffered, Gibney has been setting up home in a newly built
condominium in Orange City, Florida, having secured a
$150,000 Bank of America loan for its purchase. It took San
Francisco detective agency, Intercoastal Investigations, 24
hours to find Gibney for this newspaper. He has variously
lived in Utah, Colorado and California after fleeing Ireland
a decade ago. He first went to Scotland before leaving there
in a hurry when it was reported that he was coaching
juvenile swimmers at an Edinburgh club. Gibney got off
seven rape charges relating to young male and female
swimmers on a legal technicality in 1994.
The DPP directed that no prosecution should emanate from a
second garda investigation prompted by fresh complaints made
by four more swimmers in 1996. His extradition has never
been sought by the state. The revelation that he was a
member of two state boards at the time when complaints were
being made against him will strengthen the suspicion long
held by many of his victims that he had friends in high
places who helped him elude justice. According to a
spokeswoman at the American embassy, the standard US visa
application form specifically asks: "Have you ever been
arrested or convicted for any offence or crime, even though
subject of pardon, amnesty or other similar legal action?"
When the celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher was extradited
from New York on charges of stealing paintings from a
Dublin hotel (he was acquitted), a leading anti-abuse
campaigner in swimming wrote to justice minister Michael
McDowell, demanding: "If you can extradite Conrad Gallagher
for three paintings, why can't you extradite George Gibney
for seven rapes?"
Gibney, who has visibly aged, goes by the name John, or Jon,
Gibney in the gated " 'Enterprise Cove' development he
moved to in January. It is situated in Orange City ,
population 7,000, and he is working at a nearby hotel in
Lake Mary, Florida. His apartment is 100 yards from the
community swimming pool. Outside his front door, he keeps a
bronze sculpture of two children kissing.
He was getting into his car when the news photographer
called out 'George', and Gibney turned around in response.
However, when a reporter approached, he denied he was
George Gibney and refused to answer questions. In his haste
to escape the journalists, he drove his car, complete with
rosary beads swinging from the rearview mirror, the wrong
way on two one-way streets, ran a stop sign and cut across
an unmarked police car. His unsuspecting new neighbors
described him as 'the nicest, sweetest guy'.
In Ireland, where many of his victims have surrendered hope
of ever achieving justice, two lawsuits have been issued by
victims of George Gibney against the Irish Amateur Swimming
Association, now known as Swim Ireland. The young woman who
says he locked her in a Florida hotel room and raped her now
intends requesting the Chief Inspector of the Garda
Inspectorate, Kathleen O'Toole, to examine the entire file
on George Gibney. Additional reporting Aya Kawamoto
UPDATE
Florida alert on sex-abuse coach
Sunday Times 012410 - (Read)
Warning Notice
found in local listings of apartments for sale:
Read
02/2010
Justine
McCarthy's Deep Deception book gives abuse victims a voice
100409 London Times
"When she was 17 and one of the brightest swimming stars
around, she was raped and imprisoned in a Florida hotel room by George
Gibney."
Chalkie White, swimming coach who confronted pedophile
George Gibney
RTE Radio 100707
George Gibney in Florida
Irish Tribune 031107
Pedophile Makes Home in U.S.
Irish Voice Newspaper
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