St John Ambulance review 'extremely disturbing', says Tánaiste
St John Ambulance Headquarters on Leeson Street, Dublin: Review by Dr Geoffrey Shannon found the charity 'failed to act on knowledge or suspicions of risk because of a misguided belief that a criminal standard of evidence had to be reached before their intervention was permitted'. Picture: Gareth Chaney / Collins Photos
The Tánaiste has described a review into allegations of child sexual abuse at St John Ambulance Ireland as “extremely disturbing”.
Micheál Martin was speaking following the publication of the report, which laid bare harrowing details of how children were preyed on in the charity organisation.
