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Mon 06 Jun 2009Secretive State might mislead you to think abuse is thing of the past
ANALYSIS:SINCE THE publication of the Ryan commission report almost a fortnight ago, it has been said (with a certain sense of relief) that at least the era of institutional child abuse is firmly in the past. Such complacency is in fact profoundly misplaced, writes MARY RAFTERY
It is certainly true that you will not find in the Ryan report much detail of more recent cases of abuse within children’s residential homes. Mr Justice Seán Ryan tends to focus more on the abuses of the industrial schools era, which effectively ended in the mid to late 1970s.
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