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Fri 06 Jun 2004Council accused of not caring about deaf woman's safetyA group working with deaf people has strongly criticised a local authority for failing to provide secure accommodation for a profoundly deaf woman with no speech ability after she was attacked by an intruder who tried to sexually assault her.A spokesman for Kerry Deaf Resource Centre, Mr Willie White, said that he had written repeatedly to Tralee Town Council over the past three years asking the council to make secure the doors and windows of the local authority-owned house occupied by Ms Kathleen O'Brien.