Irish Examiner view: Immediate intervention required

The State has a deep responsibility to minors who have disappeared from its care, but this obligation is not being met. Picture: PA 

The revelation that co-ordinated networks of predatory men are potentially targeting vulnerable children missing from State care is something that should spark an immediate intervention from the authorities.

This newspaper revealed on Monday how 28 teenagers have disappeared from State care this year and that the whereabouts of 22 of them is still unknown and rarely publicised.