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Mary Raftery, 54; exposed Irish abuse scandal

By Bruce Weber

 |  New York Times  

  January 17, 2012

Mary Raftery, a journalist whose television documentaries exposed decades of abuse of needy children in state-sponsored, church-run schools in Ireland, prompting an apology by the prime minister and a government investigation, died Tuesday in Dublin. She was 54. Ms. Raftery uncovered the child abuse as a producer for Ireland’s national broadcasting service, RTE, and brought it to national attention in “States of Fear,’’ a three-part documentary series broadcast in April and May 1999.

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