SPECIAL REPORT: Sarah was loved at home, but abused in foster care

Placed in a HSE-approved foster home so she could attend a special needs school (her home was hours away), Sarah suffered the most horrific sexual abuse, says political editor Daniel McConnell.

AS a young girl, she smiled. She played, she hugged, she loved.

But she couldn’t speak and cannot tell what happened to her. Though she is a loved member of her family, when she was born, doctors told her parents that she would be a ‘vegetable’.