Sir, - In relation to the recent controversy regarding whether or not Sister Stan knew about sexual abuse in Kilkenny in the late 1970s, I would like to put the record straight.
I was the childcare worker referred to in the States of Fear programme and in the book Suffer the Little Children, who resigned from St Joseph's, Kilkenny in 1977.
I did not tell Sr Stan at any stage that children were being sexually abused in St Joseph's because I myself was unaware that sexual abuse was occurring.
It was in 1995/1996 that I got my first inkling that children had been sexually abused in 1977, almost 20 years after it is alleged that I told Sr Stan.
It is my belief today, as it was then, that Sr Stan did everything she could in 1977 regarding the children in St Joseph's. - Yours, etc.,
Edward Murphy, Westfield, Kilkenny.