Irish Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Abuse Report

The scandal within the Roman Catholic 'church' has again hit the news headlines in Northern Ireland, with revelations of priestly child sex abuse being endemic with that institution.  The 2,600 page report, started in 2002, has demonstrated that sex abuse was endemic within children's institution, and that the safety of children in general was not a consideration.  The launch of the long awaited and shocking report saw the victims and survivors of clerical sex abuse banned from the event in Dublin.  It appears athat no child abusers will be prosecuted.

If this had happened in any other institution, there would be impassioned calls for that entire organisation to be closed down with immediate effect.  If these were isolated cases with only a few individuals involved, then taking action against those individuals would go some way to resolving the situation.  But this criminal activity was endemic within that religious organisation.  In fact, the religion operated by that organisation allowed such abuse to take place, with the guaranteed cover-up that goes along with totalitarian regimes.

As is normally the case, the innocent victims of clerical sex abuse are barely mentioned - they even prohibited from attending the launch of this devastating report.  What they experienced in all its chronic horrors seems to be of no account.  The church of Rome has not considered the ongoing impact of this behaviour, and victims and survivors are left having to deal with their horrendous past as and how they can. many are addicted to alcohol and other destructive drugs, and find it difficult to maintain normal relations with other people.  Their trust in people, especially clergymen, is well rehearsed.   Any loyalty they have to their church is mis-placed in the extreme. 



The following report is taken from the Mail Online, Thursday 1st Dec 2011.

Church leaders and government watchdogs covered up 'endemic' and 'ritualised' abuse of thousands of children in Roman Catholic schools and orphanages in the Irish Republic, a shocking report revealed yesterday.

For six decades, priests and nuns terrorised boys and girls in the workhouse-style schools with sexual, physical and mental abuse.

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Kevin Flannigan, right, and John Kelly, left, from the group Survivors of Child Abuse, protest at not being allowed into the launch of the long-awaited Child Abuse Commission report at the Conrad Hotel Dublin

But officials in Ireland's Catholic Church shielded paedophile staff from arrest to protect their own reputations despite knowing they were serial attackers, according to the 2,600-page report, which took nine years to complete.

Irish government inspectors also failed to stop the chronic beatings, rape and humiliation, it found.

Justice Sean Ryan launches the report at the Conrad Hotel in Dublin today - but refuses to take questions from journalists

About 35,000 children and teenagers who were orphans, petty thieves, truants, unmarried mothers or from dysfunctional families were sent to Ireland's network of 250 Church-run industrial schools, reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s up until the early 1990s.

The report by Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse found 'a climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for boys'.
It added: 'Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from.'
Judge Sean Ryan, who chaired the commission, said that when confronted with evidence of sex abuse, religious authorities responded by moving the sex offenders to another location, where in many instances they were free to abuse again.

'There was evidence that such men took up teaching positions sometimes within days of receiving dispensations because of serious allegations or admissions of sexual abuse,' the report said.

'The safety of children in general was not a consideration.'

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