Conor O'Mahony: Every child who experienced sexual abuse in schools should be compensated

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Conor O'Mahony: Every child who experienced sexual abuse in schools should be compensated
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Redress is owed to those people now; it has been owed to them for over 10 years already. It need not and should not wait until the completion of any Commission of Investigation Report

Redress is owed to those people now; it has been owed to them for over 10 years already. It need not and should not wait until the completion of any report

It has already been established as a matter of law that the child protection framework in Irish schools was defective in the period covered by the report. Thein 2014 ruled that “when relinquishing control of the education of the vast majority of young children to non-State actors, the State should also have been aware, given its inherent obligation to protect children in this context, of potential risks to their safety if there was no appropriate framework of protection.

Ireland’s school abuse scandal: ‘He got me to do stretches. I remember thinking: this is really weird’ So, we are not learning for the first time that child protection in Irish schools was defective for much of the 20th century. Nor is it novel to suggest that people who experienced abuse in that system should receive redress.

But the State did fail the survivors a third time. A revised version of the scheme opened in 2021 has made payments to 128 applicants. However, a further restrictive condition that required applicants to have sued the State before July 2021 has resulted in many other applicants being refused .

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