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Sat 02 Feb 2010What happened to all the missing foreign children?
THERE IS something about a photograph. When you don’t know someone personally, a photograph makes the person real and vivid in a way no amount of verbal description can. When the person has previously just been just a statistic, the impact is infinitely greater, writes BREDA O'BRIEN
Although I have often written about the scandalous numbers of children who have gone missing while in the care of the Health Service Executive, somehow I had never visited the http://ie.missingkids.com website. When I finally did so last week, I found myself stunned that there is not a daily outcry to find these young people.
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