State should pay up for vital service

DESPITE all the publicity about the incidence of child sexual abuse in Irish society, the problem appears to be getting worse, if the experience of an organisation working at the cliff face of the crisis is anything to go by.

So overwhelmed is one of the country’s leading child protection groups that it is encountering major financial problems.

Because it is a voluntary body, the organisation called Children at Risk in Ireland (CARI), is heavily reliant on fundraising.