The Government’s published new laws that will make a failure to report child sexual abuse a criminal offence that carries a jail term of at least five years.
But Justice Minister Alan Shatter says the measure is about far more cases than what he described as the fixation on the seal of the confessional.
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And the Children’s Minister has also published laws that will put the up to now voluntary child protection guidelines into law by the end of the year.
