Anger at failure to name officials

ABUSE survivor John Kelly is angry that no government department official responsible for the welfare of children in residential institutions had been named, shamed or made accountable since the Ryan report was published.

“I am now wondering what the Ryan report was all about. We have spent millions of euro on the Commission to Enquire into Child Abuse to find out we were abused and I have to say that the wound that was opened by it is still festering,” said the Irish SOCA (Survivors of Child Abuse) representative.

“Nothing has been done to those who committed the abuse or covered it up, nothing, and that is why victims of abuse feel empty and cheated on. I certainly do,” he said.