Failure to protect children ‘damning’

CHILD protection measures need to be radically overhauled in light of the findings of the Ferns Report, support groups claimed yesterday.

The ISPCC said the report, headed by retired Supreme Court Judge Frank Murphy, into decades of child sex abuse by priests in the Co Wexford diocese, was a “damning indictment” of Irish society’s failure to protect children.

The Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan said the Constitution needed to be amended to include “express rights for children.”