Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: “This is of such public significance, and it hasn't been investigated by the State in the way in which it should have…”

It will give the men an opportunity to have their voice heard, if they weren't in the criminal justice process, if they weren't in a civil case, if they have never had the chance to have their truth told.

This scheme offers people a helping hand, lessens stigma and will offer a second chance.

It was a whole society that enabled that, as is the case in so many other powerful situations where people have been abusing children and protected by society.

It is important that we see the truth of what happened all along.