Victims' group slam 'arrogance' of child-protection guidelines

The Catholic Church’s new guidelines on child protection show extraordinary arrogance in defying the state’s authority in looking after vulnerable youngsters, a sex abuse victims group said today.

Colm O’Gorman, director of One In Four, said the new policy published in the wake of the Ferns Report was a rehash of the 1996 framework on child abuse, and showed nothing had changed within the Church.