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Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds

McDonald, Henry
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child-abuse-claims

Publisher:  The Guardian
Date Written:  20/05/2009
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article

Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children, Ryan report states.

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Rape and sexual molestation were "endemic" in Irish Catholic church-run industrial schools and orphanages, a report revealed today.

The nine-year investigation found that Catholic priests and nuns for decades terrorised thousands of boys and girls in the Irish Republic, while government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rape and humiliation.

The high court judge Sean Ryan today unveiled the 2,600-page final report of Ireland's commission into child abuse, which drew on testimony from thousands of former inmates and officials from more than 250 church-run institutions. Police were called to the news conference amid angry scenes as victims were prevented from attending.

More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from dysfunctional families – a category that often included unmarried mothers – were sent to Ireland's austere network of industrial schools, reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s until the last facilities shut in the 1990s.


A full summary of the report is at http://www.childabusecommission.ie/rpt/pdfs/

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