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1. I agree with Commissioner Cunneen when she says: “Children are inherently vulnerable and innocent. The sexual abuse of children is abhorrent. It exploits their vulnerability, irreparably damages their innocence and casts a shadow over their whole lives’’.
   Child abuse has been rife within society as a whole for too long. I am not defending those Churchmen who have done the wrong thing, but we need balance if we are going to stamp out this scourge, and I fear this commission will do neither. Given that a majority of such abuse occurs within the family unit, it would appear Ms Cunneen is going to be busy for a very long time.

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