an open letter to nicola tallant journalist

Dear Nicola Tallant.

I have a vague acquaintanceship with you from somewhere.

I think I've met your features editor Neil Leslie as well.

Ah I remember now. I met you both on the Rathmines, College of Commerce Journalism Course, way back in the dulcet Autumn of 1992.

Today I am writing to congratulate you on a recent article you wrote for The Sunday World. The article featured your interview with a woman who as a child was sexually abused by a devil worship ring in the Dublin suburb of Dalkey.
Her parents had prostituted her to the devil worship ring.

In interviewing this woman you gave a voice to the voiceless.

I have one question.

The woman had been sexually abused by people ritually invoking satan. At the age of eleven she gave birth to a baby who was murdered. As a result of continuing depradations by the aforementioned devil worshippers, she later gave birth to another child who was also murdered.

Nickie, how on earth could you report this woman's story without once mentioning the devil, devil worship, satan, or satanists?

Your story mentions rituals a few time but it doesn't specify what sort of rituals.

Your readers could be forgiven for thinking the sex abuse group were nature worshippers.

Give my regards to The Great Leslie.

James Healy.