Moral Panic - Child Sexual Abuse

Professional Misconduct - Moira Woods

Index 2002




The Irish Times
April 24, 2002

Dr Woods Inquiry
Letter to the Editor
By Dr A. Delaney, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo

I read in your edition of April 12th a report by Dr Muiris Houston that a group of more than 50 doctors have written to the Medical Council to express concern at the manner in which Dr Moira Woods's fitness to practice inquiry was carried out.

I hope that they would be equally concerned for the number of fathers whose children were taken away from them when they were wrongly considered to have abused their children as a direct result of Dr Moira Woods's examinations.