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Thu 01 Jan 2009Society at large complicit in sexual abuse of children
OPINION:We still have a very long way to go when it comes to dealing with the victims of child sex abuse, writes Neasa Ní Chianáin.
THE PUBLIC reaction to the Cloyne report shows our national moral paralysis when it comes to child sex abuse. The pundits have cranked up the blame game to record levels by targeting different agencies in turn, in a frantic attempt to ring-fence the blame. Schools are at fault, or the church, or maybe the State, and on and on . . .
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