Family were left to sink or swim in difficult fostering case

They offered their love and support for a troubled child in their care for more than 10 years, but the Jones family were treated badly by the State agencies overseeing the fostering process, writes Michael Clifford.

THE contents of the email hit Rosaleen Jones like a missile. Her foster child, whom she had nurtured since he was a little boy, had claimed he had accessed gay pornography with her on more than one occasion.

“I had a conversation with Sean [not his real name] recently where he shared some experience whilst in your home,” a social worker wrote to her in January 2013.