Former Archbishop of Dublin says victims should come forward to report abuse

The former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, is urging people to come forward and report incidents of abuse.

He also said he feared the numbers could have been underestimated.

In an interview on RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show, Dr Martin said that when he was Archbishop he “simply had to throw the files on the ground” when he read upsetting reports.

“I’m extraordinarily struck by the numbers in the special schools. I think that sexual abuse of particularly vulnerable children is very shocking and that the second thing is that the numbers are very high.

“For example, if you look at the three paying schools, one of the reasons for this is that I think most people may have thought this scoping inquiry was primarily about those schools. And this would mean, I think, that the numbers regarding other schools is probably under underestimated and probably higher.”

Dr Martin added that he had been pleased to see a garda statement asking people to come…

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