The families of more than 40 intellectually disabled people who suffered prolonged sexual abuse in HSE facilities in Co Donegal have not been interviewed as part of the latest review of failures in the case, The Irish Times has learned.
The whistleblower who raised the alarm about the so-called “Brandon” case also said he was not spoken to for the report, which Department of Children and Disability sources expect to be published “shortly”.
The case initially centred on at least 108 incidents of sexual abuse perpetrated against upwards of 18 people, many of whom were non-verbal, by another intellectually disabled resident, given the pseudonym Brandon, at two facilities in Stranorlar, Co Donegal, between 2003 and 2016.
The exclusion of victims’ families from the latest process was described as “very disappointing” by former minister of state Anne Rabbitte, who commissioned the report, and a “disaster” by one affected family.
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Coming in the wake of the widely criticised Farrelly Commission report on the “Grace” case, the failure to include victims’ families in the Brandon review called into question,...
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