Child abuse report - We must pay due debt for great wrong

AS with more or less every other conversation in this country it was not too long before we focused on the money.

We can’t be shocked but we might just be a tad surprised that in the face of the appalling, inhuman abuses, the savagery and torture revealed by the Commission to Inquire in to Child Abuse that money so quickly became a central issue.

This, despite the shaming fact that we – the state, all its agencies and citizens – turned a blind eye to the torture inflicted on desperate children in need of no more than the little protection any civilised society would gladly afford them.