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scubadiver
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 Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject: Irish abused 'cheated of justice' |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8060442.stm
| Quote: | Victims of "endemic" child abuse at Catholic institutions in Ireland have expressed anger that a damning report will not bring about prosecutions.
The report, nine years in the making and covering a period of six decades, found thousands of boys and girls were terrorised by priests and nuns.
Government inspectors failed to stop beatings, rapes and humiliation.
John Walsh, of Irish Survivors of Child Abuse, said he felt "cheated and deceived" by the lack of prosecutions.
The findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions - in part because the Christian Brothers successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report.
No real names, whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document.
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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A bit more. Makes one realise the extent of the Jersey abuse
| Quote: | Irish child abuse report a 'whitewash'
Many of the victims abused as children at the hands of nuns and priests in Ireland have been left angered by a long-awaited report.
The Child Abuse Commission report concludes the Catholic Church was aware long-term sex offenders were repeatedly abusing children and did nothing about it.
It detailed a catalogue of disturbing and chronic sexual, physical and emotional abuse inflicted on thousands of disadvantaged, neglected and abandoned children by both religious and lay staff over the last 70 years.
But some victims of that abuse have branded the report a 'whitewash' as it holds no individuals to account and no abusers will be prosecuted as a result of the inquiry.
And there were angry exchanges between Commission staff and victims of abuse, who were barred from the launch of the report in a central Dublin hotel.
Victim John Walsh, of leading campaign group Irish Survivors of Child Abuse said: 'The little comfort we have is the knowledge that it vindicated the victims who were raped and sexually abused.'
'I'm very angry, very bitter, and feel cheated and deceived. I would have never opened my wounds if I'd known this was going to be the end result.
'It has devastated me and will devastate most victims because there is no criminal proceedings and no accountability whatsoever.'
While the names of alleged individual perpetrators have not been published - except for those already convicted by the court - the inquiry produced specific findings against 216 facilities.
Around 2,500 men and women who were abused in schools and institutions across the country gave evidence to the Commission, led by Mr Justice Sean Ryan.
Sexual abuse of boys in the Artane Industrial School in Dublin and Letterfrack, Co Galway, was a chronic problem and at St Joseph's Industrial School in Tralee, Co Kerry, a member of the Christian Brothers Order terrorised children for more than seven years.
He had been moved there from a day school where his violence towards children was causing severe problems with parents.
Hundreds of men and women recalled being beaten on every part of their body with a list of weapons, including leather straps, sticks, farm implements, and even hurling sticks. Others were sexually abused, some described being gang raped.
Children were so badly neglected, survivors spoke of scavenging for food from waste bins and animal feed. And unsupervised bullying in boys' schools often left smaller, weaker children without food.
Accommodation was cold, spartan and bleak while children were often left in soiled, wet work clothes after being forced to toil for long hours outdoors in farms, the report found.
The Commission was set up in 2000 by former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern after a documentary revealed the scale of neglect in schools, hospitals and institutions run by religious orders.
© Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. |
http://www.orange.co.uk/news/topstories/24330.htm?linkfrom=hp4&link=ti cker_pos_1_link_1&article=index#
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:07 am Post subject: |
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Reports here:
http://www.childabusecommission.ie/rpt/pdfs/
The reports do not name names ( perhaps for fear of being sued for libel), but all the accusations are here.
It's horrific. I had to stop reading.....very distressing indeed.
When I was younger I worked on the buildings with some old Irish guys who'd had a hard time with the 'Christian Brothers' and others. The couple I'm aware of were heavy drinkers, single men, hard bitten......they mentioned this kind of things in broad terms without detail but both said they had not gotten over it and vnever would. They were still full of rage.
Very sad stuff.
The Catholic Church, when it comes to anything that 'threatens its good name'...(or its material interests) is an appalling organisation.
Well, their 'name' is well and truly trashed now....
......there is a very sad other side to this as well. Many priests of the time were wonderful people. I was taught by many of them......
.....when it came to standing up for the outsider who challenged or accused the church they all fell into line, however. Was it the oaths of obedience??......I don't know....but
....what did Christ say about oaths?
DON'T TAKE THEM! (Matthew 5, I think)
Another, and the first, mistake. |
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