Bernadette Scully trial highlights discrimination against disabilities

The trial of Bernadette Scully has highlighted how children with disabilities and their parents live like second class citizens in Ireland, Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay said yesterday.

Offaly GP Bernadette Scully was acquitted on Friday of the manslaughter of her 11-year-old daughter Emily, who died in her care in 2012.

“It never ceases to amaze me, it’s a kind of a simple truth in Ireland that disability comes into your life you become a second-class citizen and the parent of a second-class citizen,” said Mr Finlay.