State probe is the least we can do for these victims

The woman known as Grace and 46 other intellectually disabled boys, girls, men, and women who went through a Waterford foster home have been denied justice for far too long.

As readers of this newspaper will know, Grace was the young woman who was left to languish in the foster home for over 14 years until July 2009, despite repeated claims of sexual abuse emanating from the home.

Exposed to some of the most horrific sexual and physical abuse, as well as savage rape, Grace and a number of those who stayed at the foster home up until 2013 suffered a double injustice at the hands of key institutions of a State which failed them abjectly.