Responding to today's Belfast Telegraph revelations, Gerry Carroll said:
"Every week brings another disturbing chapter in how the DUP handled Jeffrey Donaldson’s predatory behaviour. Today we learn that a young woman - described by Ian Paisley Jnr himself as a victim - was allegedly warned by Emma Little-Pengelly that Donaldson was 'a danger' to her."
"Time and again, senior DUP figures appear to have heard concerns about Donaldson's behaviour and offered absolutely no protection for the women he made deeply uncomfortable. Instead, they closed ranks around him and left victims out in the cold.”
"This is a devastating failure of judgement. If the deputy First Minister continued to offer political cover to a man she had reason to believe posed a danger, she is not fit to hold one of the highest offices in this Executive.”
"The people of the North deserve leadership they can trust, and victims deserve to be believed - not brushed aside to protect a party's reputation. Emma Little-Pengelly should step aside while the full truth of what the DUP knew, and when, is established."