Isolde Raftery

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914 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Focus: We Keep Us Safe · Adults in the Room Live: A behind-the-scenes look at an investigation 25 years in the making · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

I think a lot of the adults, I was actually hoping a lot of the adults who at the time blamed us would have

I don't know, maybe be able to apologize or have come to Jesus moments or reflect on it differently, but I unfortunately didn't get much of that.

Did you get any of that?

Yeah.

For me, the first three episodes were pretty uncomfortable because I was such a central character and I became a lot more comfortable when I could say the reason for doing this story was sort of like journalism.

and pivoting to actually finding out what happened.

And once we figured out that it was not just what we thought it was, that there had been abuse of all kinds, but that it actually was much, much, much worse.

And as soon as we started figuring that out, it kind of became this like mission to share this story.

And also I would say,

people really wanted us to tell their stories, and it felt really good to people.

And so that became a driving... Once I could become a journalist again, then that was my driving motivation.

And then as time went on, even more so, and we realized, wait, this is in present day.

As the emails started pouring in, I mean, hundreds...

I don't know if thousands, but it was a lot of emails of people saying, this is happening present day.

I reported it.

This teacher has been put on leave three times.

He's still back in the classroom.

Tell me what to do.

How do I file public records requests?

And I went, oh my god, this isn't 99.

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