Present-day child abuse: why is there no outcry?

WITH the recent demands for transparency, have we not the right as citizens of the state to demand that the Government and the civil authorities supply the number of reported child abuse cases in the country for 2009, at least?

According to the Irish Examiner (February 12), between 2006 and 2008 a total of 3,332 formal investigations were launched in the Cork region alone. In fact, the heading of the article was ‘1,000 abuse cases reported in Cork each year’.

May we ask: why are there no demonstrations to bring attention to this present-day abuse? We keep emphasising abuse of 30 or 40 years ago. But it is worse than ever now, and no one cares. Why are the survivors of abuse not protesting about this neglect?