From last night’s RTÉ Investigates programme Chaos In Care
Last night.
On RTÉ One.
Aoife Hegarty, of RTÉ Investigates, presented a report entitled Chaos In Care.
It examined how certain vulnerable children, in the care of the State, have been harrowingly failed by the State.
It also looked at cases from the report published yesterday by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection Dr Geoffrey Shannon which looked at the use of Section 12 of the Child Care Act 1991 by An Garda Siochana.
Section 12 of the act allows gardai to remove a child if they believe there is a serious risk to the child’s health or welfare.
In one particular case, Ms Hegarty reported:
In 2011 a young boy living in voluntary foster care – who we’ve named ‘Mark’ – told his birth mother [‘Susan’] he had been inappropriately touched by another, male foster child twice his age who was also living with the same foster family.
‘Susan’ – which is not her real name – discovered ‘Mark’ had made a similar allegation to his foster parent 5 weeks earlier but it had not been reported to the HSE.
‘Susan’ asked to have ‘Mark’ moved from the foster placement while an investigation took place – this did not happen.
Instead a safety plan was put in place by the HSE. – this consisted of little more than an instruction to the foster parents that the two boys – who had been sharing a bedroom – “should have separate bedrooms and that the [foster] carers should supervise” them closely.
Two months later, the HSE referred ‘Mark’ for assessment by child sexual abuse experts.
The experts concluded that ‘Mark’ gave “a credible account of experiencing inappropriate sexual behaviour by his foster sibling”.
But while ‘Mark’ was assessed, it appears from case notes that his foster sibling was not.
Over the following months ‘Mark’ displayed sexualised behaviour and ‘Susan’ repeatedly reported this to the social work department.
[‘Susan’ said: “He was using his teddy bear to, pushing it up against his genitals, it was like he was imitating what had been done to him. Yeah he was saying ‘touch me you cunt’, he tried to kiss his older brother, he put his hand on his inner thigh and tried to kiss him in an adult way.”]
‘Susan’ believed her concerns were not being taken seriously by social workers so she reported the matter to the Gardaí asking them to investigate.
In fact cases notes seen by RTÉ Investigates show that An Garda Síochána were “…quite irate…” at the management of Mark’s case by the HSE social work department – stating that the Gardaí…. “Would have a different view of child sexual abuse…” The HSE decided to leave ‘Mark’ in the foster home despite his birth mother’s concerns.
Almost 3 years later… ‘Mark’ made a second allegation – this time to a TUSLA staff member that he was being punched by the same older foster child AND by an adult son of the foster family.
The foster parents were again advised by the social work department to “increase supervision” of the boys and ‘Susan’ was informed about the allegation.
In late 2015 TUSLA applied to the courts for a full care order for ‘Mark’.
As part of the court process ‘Susan’ was required to produce two psychiatric assessment reports carried out on the state of her mental health. ‘Susan’ agreed.
But what ‘Susan’ didn’t understand was that she would be personally billed by her doctor for the reports – €500 for the first report and €300 for the second one.
On one occasion she was forced to take out a loan from her credit union to cover the cost.
In an initial statement to RTÉ, TUSLA said it “…does not require individuals to undertake psychiatric assessments at their own expense…”
However when we went back and asked TUSLA to explain why ‘Susan’ ended up paying her doctors bill, a spokesperson said they “…cannot comment on individual cases…”
Last year the court ruled that ‘Mark’ will stay in care until the age of 18.
‘Mark’ continues to live with the same foster family to the present day – along with the older child alleged to have previously abused him.
Watch Chaos In Care in full here
Why do we do this to children? Why is adoption not an option for them? Anyone?
Don’t know Jake. There is nothing whatever dishonourable about open and honest adoption. However, this is not the way adoption has been treated in this country. Does this go some way to answering your question?
Adoption can only happen with the consent of the parent(s).
If ‘Susan’ thought that she may be able to take care of ‘Mark’ at some later date she may have refused to allow adoption to allow her raise hew son.
Did I not say we need more orphans and ‘children in care’? Drugs won’t test themselves, you know.
The family that lays together stays together
Do you think that is funny?
don’t mind him/ pity him
everything is just an excuse to try be nasty/ provocative/ clever
pity he/ she/it fails so
Wtf…still with the same family?
This country…it’s a dark horrible hole
Does the HSE and Tusla actively headhunt for work-shy, child-hating bastards or is it just lucky to be so well staffed by them?
I’m kind of sick of commenting on stuff like this, it;s always the same, it never changes, every generation has a proportion of its kids’ safety sacrificed by well paid superannuated sadists. Lucky for them nothing in Ireland is a crime and no one goes to jail and pensions are more secure than any child in state care could ever hope to be.
ah, perhaps it is a failure of selection criteria and vetting and testing of applicants. Hard and bitter experience (of unfortunate children, not me) should teach us to be ‘suspicious’ at least, of those whose desire is to “work with children”. That’s number 1. However, in my own profession it has been my misfortune to have to interact with many and varied organs of the State. The experience has not necessarily been a happy one. A reasonable person might conclude that the State – for humanitarian reasons, of course – employs (‘well got’) people who would otherwise be unemployable in any normal organisation. Hence the chaos we face.
As usual, corruption, from the top down, has us where we are.
What the fupp is wrong with country. But these organisations are staffed full of people who just want cushy jobs. I can give u an example of my sis in law, I won’t name the exact place but they deal with homelessness, families in hotels mainly. When she took the job, only a few weeks ago, she assumed it would be like her old job (non government funded) as in, when you finish those cases come back and get more. Expect now it’s a government funded “agency” she works for she only has to do a certain amount of case assessments each week. And I kid you not, if by Wednesday she finishes her quota, that’s her finished till monday. Wtf, how can any where run effectively like that?
His mental health will be fine once here’s help…. Oh wait, he’s a ‘he’ and women’s mental health has been set for prioritisation above mens mental health even tho men make up 75% of suicides in Europe…. back to tieback of the queue, it’s women first as always even when they aren’t the priority.
Source:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/talking-about-men/201705/gender-and-mental-health-do-men-matter-too
Of course, I’m just being a sexyist for pointing thus hypocrisy out.
Good luck to that young man, he’ll need it going up against feminism to get fair treatment and access to health services.
sorry ’bout the typos
Clampers, you make me profoundly sad. I can only hope that you’ll eventually find the courage to get the help you so manifestly need.
U got your doctorate from Gillian Mckeith I guess… good for you pet.
Sexyist has to be a thing now.
I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly
Hi, Shayna, nice to see you on here again :-)
@Zena, Thank you. Jeez, who noticed I was away. I was in Brighton – didn’t take my laptop or phone, went a bit Zen on it!
You’re back! I tell you, you’ve been missed in the BSTV chatroom. Yer name’s been mentioned.
Also, hi :)
@mildred st. meadowlark – Yikes- It’s good to be missed!
Good for you, Shayna, nice to get away and let your hair down :-)
Bar my poor attempt at humour, please read the link.
Then imagine the mental health ‘priority’ being given to men.
By the way, neither should be prioritised or given better or free care based on their gender as demanded by feminists in that piece to the EU.
That’s the kind of discrimination which is not only tolerated but promoted by modern feminism.
Modern third wave feminism is an ideology, a warped hate filled ideology devoid of any claims on being an ‘equality’ movement. The above is just one of many many glaring examples.
And a despicable one at that. Truly despicable. it would without any doubt be called misogynist if reversed…. wouldn’t it? You know well it would in fairness.
I have to counter these lies. That sh** nearly had me in an early grave, and has put many men in early graves and with this line of thinking many, many more will too, because of a twisted half baked “ideology” being used to form policy…. a fu**ing disgrace.
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On another note, hope you’re enjoying the good weather.
Modern third wave feminism is among the least of issues with which you contend, clearly.
That’s a compliment. Thanks.
Modern third wave feminism does one thing says another then turns on itself.
Google the Tuvel / Hypatia debacle and see the absolute hysterical joke that third wave feminism has become.
Look for the Hypatia response to the Tuvel paper and it’s ‘reasoning’.
The Hypatia journal basically, without realising it dismisses all of feminism and it’s research, and methods, in a response to the Tuvel paper.
In the response the esteemed journal of feminist theory, Hypatia, is collapsing in on its own theoretical poopy poo. It gives a reason why all of feminist theory is claptrap masquerading as “academia”.
It is a thing of beauty to behold a bunch of third wave deluded feminist idealogues going at each other….
All the LOLS for anyone who believes in logic and empiricism.
^does one thing….
“That’s a compliment. Thanks.”
That instantly made me think of what’s said to the terrible Michael Jackson with the obvious emotional issues 3.25 into this video. Poor Clamps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuLYyHKwcNg
And, your point… in a thread about mental health, you make jokes and slurs about mental health.
Another *slow clap* for you pet.
Someday when you remove your head from the deluded nonsense of third wave feminism you might see the lies of their hate filled misandrist ideology, but you seem entrenched so much that anyone who disagrees with your petty minded idealogues is considered to have a mental disorder.
Again, I ask, was it Gillian Mckeith awarded you your doctorate? *snigger*
Seems your level of credibility that
Pfft… try make a coherent point instead of slurs, thanks.
*the Michael Jackson impersonator.
If you’re not clicking on the video, the guy sings terribly, obviously thinks he’s brilliant so doesn’t react to criticism well and when he’s told he was more Latoya than Michael, he says ‘I love Latoyah so that’s a compliment’ because in his mind, that means he outsmarted his critics. Clamps is an actual parody.
V good, have a lie down… you sound strained to get your silly point across pet.
Yikes – you’re really going into one there! I was involved in the second wave of feminism. It ultimately failed, thus, the third wave. In a responsible State, one would think that kids would be safe in their family environment. When they aren’t safe – it”s a matter for the State. Child abuse appears to be rife in Ireland, going back decades, The Catholic Church and their representatives certainly don’t help. Foster care clearly isn’t working for vulnerable types – but why should that be the case?
Read the linked story Shayna. it’ll likely upset you what third wave feminism has become… sick and twisted, IMO.
And yet, this thread has absolutely nothing to do with feminism, of any wave.
Unfortunately it does, as third wave feminism sticks is grubby hands into everything, including mental health policy of the EU. View the link above.
I did, and I fail to see, (and I’ve read your other comments on this thread too) despite the valid points it raises, how it has anything to do with the state’s many failures as regards the handling of this child’s case. Which is the point raised by this post.
Mental health, and in particular men’s mental health, while relevant, is not what this post is drawing attention to. You are the one who did that.
You’re quite right to draw attention to the issue, because it’s a huge failure to men, and dismissive of men’s mental health, in general. But this may not have been the most effective platform for what you’re trying to achieve.
It is directly relate-able to that child’s future mental health needs.
Why wait until he gets out of the situation to do something about it when it is known now that he’ll have a wall put up because he’s a boy and not a girl when we know now he’ll face that limited or potentially denied access.
You don’t call the doctor on your death bed, you get to the doctor before it gets that bad. This is no different, especially when it is clear that an ideology is actively building that restriction to access. Its disgusting what third wave feminism does in the guise of what they call “equality”. Its sick.
“Child being sexually abused? We must act quickly to DENOUNCE GEORGE SOROS!!!11OEN1!”
You go and do that.
I’ll look at services for the child’s future mental health, and comment on that. Seeing as he’ll be classed as a second to third class citizen with regard to mental health services access if these ideological modern feminist misandrists get their way, which is likely, in fairness.
You just chase those tangents Ahjaysiz and ignore facts, its what modern feminism wants you to do after all.
Good lad.
One thing I’ve noticed is that when Clampes gets angry nothing he says makes any sense at all
I’m not angry. I just write pointedly, and without regard for snowflakes and their feels.
I can’t wait until your sort are kept in kennels for breeding and occasional DIY.
EIN REICH EIN VOLK EIN THANKS HUN PENNEYS 10 EURO
The left do like to take the authoritarian approach, you’ll be a good call for rounding up your chosen undesirables. Maybe get yourself an arm band and cap with a skull and cross bones you relic of the past….
“your sort”
…had me clutching me pearls ya did LOL
I see you’re back at it again Clampers, as your favorite world leader would say…SAD.
Did you read the link…. please do and let me know if such is justified, and then explain why you think it is as you clearly seem to think so….
thanks
In fairness, modern Irish mental health care really needs to be co-opted into an antifeminist culture war crusade. That should improve things no end.
No Nigel, read the link, read what I said and stop pretending I said what you wished I’d said
thanks
I wish you’d say things that show your critical thinking skills have overcome your blind spot. But you don’t.
Stop waffling Nigel. Comment on the facts of the link, you’re resorting to your leftists tendency to just name call.
Read, then comment, good lad
By the way… what ‘blind spot’ do you believe I posess?
I look forward to a straight forward coherent statement of what it is, thanks.
Otherwise it is fair to assume you’re just silencing opposing voices, like the ideological left usually does. Please, prove me wrong, tell me what the ‘blind spot’ is, thank u.
Me:
‘modern Irish mental health care really needs to be co-opted into an antifeminist culture war crusade’
Clamps:
‘read what I said and stop pretending I said what you wished I’d said’
->’Hahaha… you who do that are the real self deluded muppets who prefer to virtue signal rather than condemn feminist hate filled and dangerously biased demands that will lead to deaths.’
‘you’re resorting to your leftists tendency to just name call.’
->’self deluded muppets’
->’ you numpties’
->’disgusting little propagandist muppets’
‘Stop waffling’
->’I see from reading the responses to me that nome of those commenters even read any of the info in the link provided. Hahaha… you who do that are the real self deluded muppets who prefer to virtue signal rather than condemn feminist hate filled and dangerously biased demands that will lead to deaths. I hope none of you ever comment any more on any stories relating to….mental health or suicide. You have shown here that you don’t care about those who need help the most, and will rally behind the faux claims of feminism blindly…. *slow clap* for you numpties. I’ll probably post links to this page when I see you guys expressing your absolutely now provable faux concern at the next reported suicide. You’re disgusting little propagandist muppets sometimes, truly. You know who you are you muppets. BTW before the usual pathetic accusations of… you must be very angry / why do you hate women, etc… start flowing in, I’m totally calm, I’m just aghast at the willful stupidity of some….. read the link, please, thanks’
Yes. I stand by what I said.
Name calling Nigel is calling someone something without evidence. I gave evidence of your bullpoo. All you did is repost it, thanks for displaying your inability to see that.
Clearly you do then support ideologically informed policy making which makes you a regressive. As it is regressives who put those in need after their preferred ideology regardless of facts.
Again… *slow clap* for u, sadly.
Stop hating on me Nigel, and get your head out of the hypocritical nonsense that is third wave regressive hate filled feminism, please.
“Read, then comment, good lad”
My legacy will live on
long after I’m gone.
Your legacy will be long forgotten, dumped in the hole of regressive claptrap and ideological bullpoo.
C: ‘what ‘blind spot’ do you believe I posess?’
C: ‘Name calling Nigel is calling someone something without evidence.’
Me: ‘modern Irish mental health care really needs to be co-opted into an antifeminist culture war crusade.’
(C: ‘you’re resorting to your leftists tendency to just name call.’)
C: ‘get your head out of the hypocritical nonsense that is third wave regressive hate filled feminism’
(C: ‘stop pretending I said what you wished I’d said’)
Bonus: ‘put those in need after their preferred ideology regardless of facts.’
No put those in ‘need’ first. ideological need goes last, if at all.
Yet here you are.
eh… point?
By the way, seeing as you are not into denouncing George Soros, I take it then that you support his efforts and investments in vulture funds…. and being a major landlord.
I look forward to you cheerleaders Soros I’m the coming year as the housing crisis continues.
Good lad Ahjaysiz
^cheerleading
^in the coming…
The comments on BS are going down hill.
None of you who through stick at me clear have not read any of their and no nothing of what ye are talking about, but yestill attelack read that link, none of you… you who do that make me wanna throw up some
Actually guys, he has a point with that report. It isn’t a surprise that ideology from a single NGO has influenced policy, but it is sad when it is so brazen and when there are lives at risk (i.e. male suicide). The article isn’t exactly unbiased, but that doesn’t make it incorrect.
However, time and a place clampers. You’re turning an utter diabolical situation into a specific agenda. It’d be fine if we knew that sexism was at play here. There have been 22 inquires into the state’s failure to protect children. What we see is the same pattern irregardless of gender: the abusers are protected and the child ignored.
This is why you’re ignored, you consistently twist a news story to push an agenda. It’s worse when it is capitalising on something like this.
You’re right. That report is a clear statement from governments that they do not care about evidence or equality. Only the appearance of equality. But it has nothing to do with this story or the circumstances.
If there’s one thing you can say, it’s that the state’s incompetence and gross negligence in relation to child protection, child welfare and child abuse has been equally applied to all genders.
It is directly related to the welfare of the young boy who will be pushed down the queue of ‘need’ assessed and replaced with ‘gender’ assessed and so it is very relevant to this story.
I am pro ‘needs’ based and anti ideology based policy. it’s that simple.
I understand why people may think as you have that I am pushing an agenda, but it’s not some written agenda, it’s a ‘needs’ first ideology at the last rung, if at all.
if image an agenda here, it’s only that. Criticism of feminist ideology is not even allowed within feminist “academia” which informs these discriminatory practices and for that I am called a sexist…. by idiots and idealogues (not you Listrade)
[ ….plse forgive that last comment it has more typos than should be permissable :/… Sorry, I’m a crap ph-typist :) ]
“…it’s a ‘needs’ first, ideology at the last…”
…missing comma made that read incorrectly, fixed now as BS says
It’s like tutting over a burning house with a child still inside and reminding everyone that the real issue is that if there’s a girl with serious burns in the hospital she might get seen first before the boy.
The point you skipped over in order to reel off your talking points being that no one is rescuing the boy.
No, I did not skip anything. I read the story. I said he’d need help in future but would be lower down the in priority because ideology.
Try again.
And em…. ‘burns’ dont go to the mental health clinic. They go to a burns clinic.
Good lad.
Mental health…. serious burns are a mental health issue now.
OK, I knew the regressive left tries to redefine everything, but you are just being stupid now.
Oops, sampling twice.
Oops, same point twice
I see from reading the responses to me that nome of those commenters even read any of the info in the link provided.
Hahaha… you who do that are the real self deluded muppets who prefer to virtue signal rather than condemn feminist hate filled and dangerously biased demands that will lead to deaths.
I hope none of you ever comment any more on any stories relating to….mental health or suicide.
You have shown here that you don’t care about those who need help the most, and will rally behind the faux claims of feminism blindly…. *slow clap* for you numpties.
I’ll probably post links to this page when I see you guys expressing your absolutely now provable faux concern at the next reported suicide. You’re disgusting little propagandist muppets sometimes, truly. You know who you are you muppets.
BTW before the usual pathetic accusations of… you must be very angry / why do you hate women, etc… start flowing in, I’m totally calm, I’m just aghast at the willful stupidity of some….. read the link, please, thanks
Fupp off
No.
Clampers. This post is about a little boy being kept in harms way, subject to sexual abuse.
Read back the thread and look what you’ve done to it and maybe you’ll realise you look like a frothing madman reeling off learnt phrases, shoehorning a pet obsession into a really serious, sad story of an abandoned child that bears not even a tangential relationship to whatever the fupp you’re copying and pasting from your radicalised brain.
Alright Jack’s response was more succinct.
When that child needs psychological help, he’ll be put at the back of the queue because of his gender, because of a bullpoo ideology. the point is pertinent to his recovery when he gets out.
But you being a typical leftist are incapable of seeing beyond that infront of you, sadly.
Call me whatever you want. Facts is facts Ahjaysiz, and the fact is a warped ideology is making sure that child will not get any mental health help.
That is an extremely important point for that child’s long term recovery.
Get off your condescending high horse, with your idiot statements. Just because you don’t like the truth won’t make it go away
“the fact is a warped ideology is making sure that child will not get any mental health help.”
“the FACT is….”
Let this be a lesson to everyone on how important it is have some humility and be able to recognise when your “opinions” are actually just feelings and not reasoned, thought through conclusions as you might be telling yourself. You’ll end up like Clamps otherwise.
You still haven’t read anything of that link.
It IS fact, not opinion, that that child will be pushed down the priority list because of his gender. That’s a fact, not an opinion you deluded numpty.
If boys are treated as not as ‘in need’ as girls, that’s diabolical, Clampers, really is. I don’t know enough about it to comment apart from that it seems glaringly clear that a some foster carers are only in it for the money. They no doubt qualified as foster carers without thorough enough checks and have little, if any, regard for the children. They should be prosecuted for not reporting the little boys complaint and barred from fostering. How an adult can turn a deaf ear to sexual abuse claims is heinous
Totally agree. And when the child is eventually removed and in need of mental health services he’ll be de-prioritised because the boy is ‘he’ abd for no other reason. That’s dangerous feminist sexism at work. One of many examples of the sewer third wave feminism has gone down. Fact.