Gibney
update
Location:
Enterprise Cove, Orange City, Florida
UPDATE
January 24, 2010
Florida alert on sex-abuse coach
(Sunday Times) - (Read)
Case is covered in detail in the book 'Deep Deception'
by Justine McCarthy - available on Amazon
here
Dec 2009:
Address:
850
Enterprise Cove Ave,
Orange City, FL 32763-8370
Drives a silver Honda: Florida Lic Plate X05 4GX
His unit is currently
listed as "For Sale" (@ $50,000 less than he paid for it 2
years ago
http://assist2sell.com/userarea/viewpropertydetails.aspx?lisid=280279&fid=490&zl=1
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
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