The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #125619   Message #2785522
Posted By: Smokey.
10-Dec-09 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Suffer The Children (Dublin child abuse)-2
Subject: RE: BS: Suffer The Children (Dublin child abuse)-2
"It's time to stop all this blame-laying, punish those who are actually criminals"

Absolutely right, Joe, but at the same time I think the criminal part goes well beyond the abusers themselves and it's well worth trying to establish how and why this stuff was allowed to happen. Surely that is the only hope of preventing it? It's a much bigger and longer problem than is currently being portrayed, and it's not immediately apparent that that is being acknowledged. It seems to be generally known that about a third of victims go on to be abusers themselves, and one thing the Murphy report seems to illustrate is that the number of actual complaints fell a long way short of the number of admitted abuses. A lot kept quiet about it and it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that most of the potential future abusers are among that number. They need to be found, and they need help before the same rot sets in, although given the time scale of the report it will be too late for some.