Abused teenager met by ‘plague of professionals’

A TEENAGER complained of being visited by “a plague of professionals” at her home since disclosing she had been sexually abused, a conference heard yesterday.

The 16-year-old girl is a patient of child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr Imelda Ryan, director of St Louise’s Child Sexual Abuse and Assessment Unit at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin.

Dr Ryan, who was speaking during a conference in Dublin that looked at how children disclose their experiences of sexual abuse in Dublin, said the teenager had to recount very traumatic events over and over again to different professionals.