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DUBLIN — Ireland unveiled a plan Tuesday to better protect children from abuse after investigators documented decades of chronic molestation and brutality at Catholic-run facilities.
The 99-point plan from Children’s Minister Barry Andrews seeks to improve child-protection services and tighten enforcement. It also proposes building a memorial to thousands of children abused under Catholic care through the 1990s.
Andrews said all children’s shelters must be subject to independent inspection by next year, and 270 more social workers must be recruited because too many kids had nobody to assess the dangers in their lives.
