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CHILDCARE staff who failed to take six children out of a home where they suffered years of neglect and sexual abuse are only now to be investigated by the HSE after the full horrors of the case were published yesterday.

The report into the Roscommon Child Care Case found that local care staff in the HSE, the Western Health Board as it was then, repeatedly failed to prevent the litany of neglect and abuse.

Last night the HSE admitted that the case, treated as one of child neglect, should have moved into a default position where the children were taken into care, but did not until revelations of sexual abuse emerged in 2004.