Scouting Ireland under spotlight over review of historic abuse files

Katherine Zappone, the Minister for Children, has written to Scouting Ireland to ask them for a meeting to raise the issue of a 2012 historical review of its files that turned up only eight issues. The spotlight is shining once more on the organisation’s records of child sex abuse in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s after child safety expert Ian Elliott’s review of its historic files turned up 108 alleged abuse victims and ...