Gardaí to probe evidence of physical abuse

Gardaí have begun a criminal investigation into the alleged physical abuse of children which featured in Tuesday’s Prime Time documentary on creches.

Local gardaí and officers from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation are to carry out the investigation following the footage recorded for RTÉ’s A Breach of Trust in Little Harvard in Rathnew, Co Wicklow; Giraffe in Belarmine, Stepaside and Links in Malahide, Dublin. Complaints have been made to gardaí from parents at the facilities.

There was cross-party condemnation of what the programme had uncovered in the Dáil yesterday.