Revealed: The full horror suffered by ‘Grace’, the girl the State forgot

A report published today opens the lid on the shocking abuse and neglect of a child and young adult left languishing in a foster care home, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

IT IS sickening what the young woman we have come to know as Grace was exposed to for so long.

Born in 1978 as the child of a single mother, Grace was originally put up for adoption, but because of her intellectual disability that fell through. So began a lifetime of neglect at the hands of the State.