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Obscene: The Dublin Scandal

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Ruth's Class Made Her a Throwaway Person

"It's really hard to explain why they decided so early on that it was Ruth," she says. "There's a kind of willful blindness there where they determined that it was her." Do you think her class was used against her or her lack of financial resources, maybe being a single mom? The thing that we discovered when we made this series was that where scientific evidence did not support the police case that Ruth had killed her son, it was ignored. It would be very unusual for a parent to kill a child in the way that Ricky was murdered.

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