Report: Government failing to protect children from sex abusers

THE country’s leading organisation for supporting sexually abused children has launched a scathing attack on what it said was the Government’s year of broken promises.

Children at Risk in Ireland’s (CARI) annual report castigated the State’s services for abuse victims. It said there has been a deplorable delay in bringing forward proposals for a referendum on the rights of the child.

It also said the continuing care for abused children was being compromised by the failure to properly support therapy options.