Leinster
House which houses the Seanad chamber, or upper house of the
Irish parliament,
is pictured in Dublin on October 2, 2013 (AFP/File, Peter Muhly)
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Strasbourg
— The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday found Ireland liable for sexual
abuse suffered by a girl at a Catholic-run state primary school in the 1970s.
"The
Court found that it was an inherent obligation of a Government to protect
children from ill-treatment, especially in a primary education context,"
the court said in its ruling of a case brought by a woman who had been sexually
abused by the principal of her school in 1973.
"That
obligation had not been met," it said.
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