Group to fight false child abuse allegations

A CONTROVERSIAL organisation representing people wrongly accused of child abuse is to visit Ireland next week to advise on the prevention and detection of false allegations.

The British False Memory Society is coming to Dublin in association with Let Our Voices Emerge (LOVE), an Irish group set up last year by former children's home residents sceptical about claims of abuse in religious-run institutions where they personally had happy experiences.

The society was set up ten years ago in support of parents wrongly accused by children who claimed to have recalled abuse from recovered memory following therapy, but it has since widened its remit to campaign for greater scrutiny of abuse allegations, particularly involving mass accusations involving childcare institutions.