Child protection failings: ‘It’s going to shock you beyond belief’

Prof Shannon’s report details barbaric abuse of children by parents, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

CHILDREN treated like “human trash”. Children subjected to “barbaric” treatment and “staggering” levels of trauma. Lives that have been left “shattered”.

It’s a story that has been told in this country before, many times. But this is not times past; this is now.