Adoption files to be reviewed: A story of collusion and trafficking

One of the reasons we cannot escape our past is that we do not always recognise it as it was.

We often use denial as a refuge from discomfiting truths. Another is that our culture, our civil and religious bureaucracies, and, all too often, our politicians, in a position to counter comforting myth with colder fact, shy away from unearthing the rawest stories, especially those involving vulnerable children.