Alleged abuse victim loses bid for compensation

A WOMAN who claims she was abused at an industrial school has lost her High Court challenge against the Residential Institutions Redress Board’s refusal to allow her bring a claim for compensation.

The woman, now aged 41 and who cannot be identified for legal reasons, claimed she was subject to physical and emotional abuse at the industrial school she was sent to in 1977. The woman, who the court heard has intellectual difficulties, was at the Midlands- based school until 1987.

In 2009, she sought compensation under the government scheme set up in 2002 to compensate those abused while resident in industrial schools and other institutions regulated by the state.