Dear Editor,

I imagine that the season on scapegoats is never closed, but before we endorse the condemnation on the former head of the Child Development Agency Mrs Allison Anderson-McLean, who somehow has been labelled a casualty of the Armadale fallout, let me enlighten the public on a few salient points.

(1) So uninvolved was the Child Development Agency in the Armadale tragedy that no one from that agency was required or invited to attend that hearing, not to mention Mrs Anderson-McLean herself.

(2) That agency was not required or invited to provide any written information for the Enquiry’s consideration.

(3) The learned commissioner in the 132-page report made only one “observation” against the Child Development Agency, to which no opportunity was afforded for clarification.

It is therefore totally incorrect and unkind for Mrs Allison Anderson-McLean to be classified among the casualties of the Armadale disaster.

Howard Hamilton

26 Duke Street

Kingston