Suggestion of his guilt and that he remains to his dying day, someone who denied he was involved in child abuse. they, too, say he was a victim of institutional failings because he was not able to have his day in court either. the secretary to the child sexual abuse inquiry, john 0�*brien explains more about what the report found. 0peration magnolia and operation dauntless were failed investigations. at the heart of both of those, it was because it was deemed that these children because they were children in care were not taken seriously and be critical witnesses. —— credible witnesses. ...