IRELAND
Irish Times
MARY MINIHAN
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald said she was shocked at some of the findings of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
Ms Fitzgerald said best practice in child protection was ignored up until last year.
Seven reviews were conducted by the board into safeguarding practices at both diocesan and religious congregation level.
“The scale of past abuse recounted in these reviews is horrific, in particular as we know it took place, in many instances, in schools. But the extent of cover-up and the failures to safeguard children, whether by acts of commission or omission, is equally shocking,” she said.
Ms Fitzgerald was critical of the management of allegations of abuse and the alleged offenders.
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