Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

During the noughties, 443 children went missing from State care, none of whom was ever found. That was approximately 44 children per year who disappeared without trace, and at least some of these unaccompanied minors ended up in the prostitution industry. This dropped to fewer than four per year after the State policy changed from placing unaccompanied migrant children in foster care rather than residential facilities.

From reading the Protecting Against Predators: A Scoping Study on the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Young People in Ireland research paper, it seems to me that Tusla has learned absolutely nothing from past failures. Children in State-run residential facilities are again being sexually exploited and the staff are not even being provided with the basic tools to deal with this. This is 14 years after authorities accepted that there was a problem with migrant children in the exact same situation that our own children are today.

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