Mixed reaction to draft child abuse law

ONLY one in 80 perpetrators of child sexual abuse end up with a conviction, a leading survivors’ organisation has claimed.

One in Four told the Oireachtas Justice Committee that the vast majority of offenders were “walking about with impunity.”

Children At Risk in Ireland (CARI) said that there were 2,300 new allegations of child sexual abuse every year and that the main place of danger for children was the home.