We call this residential care, I call it institutionalisation of trauma": Group calls for better child protection

SHANE GRIFFIN spent eight years of his childhood in State care. In that time he was moved through multiple foster placements, suffered sexual and physical abuse, and ran away from his place of residence multiple times.
“I’m an adult child of the Irish State,” Griffin told listeners gathered in room in Leinster House on Wednesday.

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