Mary Hanafin Told Me She Would Help Tracey. After That I Didn't Hear a Thing ; Social Worker of Doomed Teen Reveals How the Minister's Word Came to Nothing [Eire Region]

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MEETING: Butterly, MARY HANAFIN personally promised to help Tracey Fay two years before her death - then never contacted the troubled teenager's social worker again.

Miss Hanafin was serving as children's minister when she was warned by care worker Maura Butterly that Tracey, then aged 15, was in desperate need of help.

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Mary Hanafin Told Me She Would Help Tracey. After That I Didn't Hear a Thing ; Social Worker of Doomed Teen Reveals How the Minister's Word Came to Nothing [Eire Region]

The minister pledged to assist and asked Miss Butterly to call her a week later to work out the best way to try and save the disturbed youngster.

However, the following week Miss Hanafin was 'unavailable' - and she never contacted Miss Butterly again.

There was no obvious change in Tracey's regime after this. Two years later she was found dead in a coal bunker after takin...

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