Garda indagare nella scomparsa del bambino temuto morto
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0901/1531244-child-missing-gardai/
di fedupofbrick
Garda indagare nella scomparsa del bambino temuto morto
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0901/1531244-child-missing-gardai/
di fedupofbrick
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Another Kyron, christ
The system is fucked up
Years?!! How the hell is this happening?
How many more disappeared kids are there out there that our agencies have no view of?
Jesus Christ not another one!
How is so hard for Tusla keep tabs on all their charges?!
People moving around a lot especially if renting is a big problem of children slipping through the cracks. If a parent tells a creche/school they are moving why would it be followed up on unless there was a suspicion.
Lots of people blaming Tusla and “the system” here, but the state has very limited hands-on touchpoints with children in real terms.
This is by design, it’s written the constitution that parents are the “natural educator”.
It’s basically impossible to get through pregnancy and labour without some sort of official involvement, be that a doctor or a nurse at some level.
Then for the first few months, a public health nurse will come out and annoy you and the HSE will send reminders about vaccinations.
But after that, nothing really happens unless there’s a reason for it. Nobody from the public service is out there knocking on doors checking that children exist. The public health nurse does developmental checks a couple more times till they’re 4, but if you keep fobbing them off they’ll eventually go away.
Until the child is 6 or 7, nobody is going to be asking why they’re not attending a school.
So there’s a blindspot of 5-6 years where children are vulnerable to abuse, even murder, unless a family member or someone else raises the alarm.
And it was especially bad during COVID when a lot of stuff was posted in and wasn’t collected in-person by public servants.
This isn’t a unique problem to Ireland.
It seems reasonable though that we should be looking at the cracks. Compiling a list of children who are at higher risk – any child over 12 months old who is not registered in some form of childcare or school, and hasn’t attended a GP appointment in six months. Flag these kids up for a PHN visit. Just a simple, “Hey, how are we all getting on?”. If the PHN can’t get access to the child after 3 attempts in a month, then you flag it to Tusla as an urgent case.
The main issue with that is the legal challenges. You’ll have no end of people – whackjob religious types especially – who would consider this to be excessive interference by the state on parents’ rights.