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Mon 06 Jun 2009Up to 5,000 more people may seek redress, law firm claims
ABUSE CASES:BETWEEN 2,000 and 5,000 more people may seek redress for abuse experienced as children in religious-run institutions, a leading legal firm has estimated.
A spokesman for the Dublin firm, which has been dealing with people abused in such institutions, said it based the estimate on the number of contacts made with its office and the fact that approximately 140,000 children had been through the institutions between the 1930s and the 1970s. Of that number, 14,584 had applied to the Residential Institutions Redress Board for compensation by the deadline of December 15th, 2005.
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