Incest Probe Amounts to Hse 'Cover-Up': Td [Eire Region]

Daily Mail (January 26, 2009)

Author: Helen Bruce

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HEALTH chiefs are to review the caseload of social workers as they begin a detailed investigation into how the Roscommon incest case was handled.

The Health Service Executive (HSE), which had worked with the troubled family at the heart of the controversy since 1989 under its earlier guise, the Western Health Board, has launched an inquiry into whether its staff failed to protect the children, who are now in foster care.

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Incest Probe Amounts to Hse 'Cover-Up': Td [Eire Region]

Last week, a 40-year-old mother of six was sentenced to seven years' jail on a series of charges of neglect, abuse and incest.

But at least one opposition TD has criticised the HSE's involvement in the investigat...

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