article_snippet: The day before, Brendan’s had called the ten-year-old’s mother, inviting the ten-year-old’s mother to school to discuss the ten-year-old’s mother
article_snippet: Brendan explains: ‘I would often praise children by giving children a pat on the back or a tap on the knee.
article_snippet: I’d never questioned that it was inappropriate.
article_snippet: It was horribly intrusive.
article_snippet: ’s behaviour to indicate her son had been abused.