No excuses, let’s have real action - Foster home abuse scandal

If they are distressed then the great majority of people are more than angry and utterly disinterested in whatever version of pass-the-parcel is offered to try to protect the officials who plainly failed in their duty of care.
That the woman at the centre of the scandal — Grace — was returned to the foster home on the very night, in March 2009, that the HSE reported their suspicions to gardaí utterly beggars belief. She was left in that house for another four months despite alternative accommodation being available, pointing to an amoral indifference where there should have been comfort. That local gardaí were so disbelieving is more than appalling. That another vulnerable person was placed in that home until last April moves the scandal to another plane, a far darker and more challenging one.