{"id":162568,"date":"2025-11-27T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162568\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:58:09","slug":"tusla-chief-apologises-for-statement-that-said-girl-10-allegedly-assaulted-in-west-dublin-had-absconded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162568\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusla chief apologises for statement that said girl (10) allegedly assaulted in west Dublin had \u2018absconded\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Following the incident, Tusla said the girl had \u201cabsconded\u201d while on a trip with staff in the city centre, with accusations in the D\u00e1il that this \u201cverged on victim blaming\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate Duggan said that she understands the concerns of the wider public (PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8c21da11-1034-4fb5-b799-8fad14b7f686.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kate Duggan said that she understands the concerns of the wider public (PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The chief executive of Tusla has apologised for the wording of a statement issued after the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kate Duggan said that she understands the concerns of the wider public after \u201csignificant\u201d incidents involving young people who had received State care, but emphasised that most children in care are \u201cthriving\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the incident, Tusla said the girl had \u201cabsconded\u201d while on a trip with staff in the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43,60422],"class_list":{"0":"post-162568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-news-in-90-seconds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}