Shocking report of child abuse in Irish Catholic institutions

The religious orders protected the abusers, not the children, and sometimes moved the abusers on to different schools where they continued to abuse children.

The report by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse reveals a climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, in which children lived in terror of the next beating. Sex abuse was endemic in boys' homes and common in girls' schools, but the Department of Education did little to help the children and was "completely deferential" to the religious institutions.

Many of the victims are now dead and those who are still alive are very angry that despite the grave findings of the report the perpetrators of the devastating abuse are still not being brought to account.

Reference: Telegraph

Margaret Wilde www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk