"'two fiddles short of a ceilidh band....' nice one!"
The plight of this family came to the attention of the Social Services in 1998 when the eldest would have been around 5 years old, which suggests that abuse was not just a part of the lives of these six children, but WAS their lives.
They were subjected to ill-treatment, neglect and rape by a mother who was an alcoholic and obviously incapable of fulfilling her duties as a parent; by their fellow pupils who bullied and taunted them because of the state in which they were sent to school; by social services who failed recognise the situation and by a religious nut who intervened to help prevent them placed in protective care.
It seems that the army of abusers who made the pathetic lives of these children miserable, possibly to the point of destroying them, have just recruited a number of willing volunteers from this thread.
What kind of people are you?
Jim Carroll