Sex abuse cases: Forty-six children placed in foster care with abusive family

Between 1983 and 1995, 46 children — many of whom had physical and mental disabilities — were placed in foster care with an abusive family in the south-east of the country.

One victim, or “service user” as they are referred to by the HSE, who had an intellectual disability, was placed in full-time foster care with the family in 1989.

This arrangement lasted until 2009 at which stage the HSE removed the victim who was placed in an “appropriate full-time residential placement”.