Family sex abuse the ‘untold story in our society’

SEXUAL abuse within families is the untold story of our society, according to the head of a support group for victims of sexual abuse.

Maeve Lewis of One in Four said that while there was rightly great upset over clerical abuse of children, more often than not, children are abused by members of their own family.

Ms Lewis’s comments came after the HSE and gardaí confirmed another alleged case of serious sexual assault involving a family in the west of Ireland.