Anger won’t tackle issues or aid victims

The ultimate sentence may have been lenient, but was not outlandishly so, writes Michael Clifford

WHERE was all the anger when therapy services for abused children closed in Cork, Galway, and Tralee last year? Where is the public outrage that funding to conduct a comprehensive survey on the extent of child and adult sexual abuse has been withdrawn? (The last sexual assault and violence in Ireland (SAVI) report was compiled 15 years ago and another is long overdue.) Where is the political pressure to ramp up services for abused children to a level befitting an alleged civilised society?

These questions arise in a week in which there was a lot of anger across large parts of society at the sentence received by Tom Humphries for grooming and abusing a child.