Thousands beaten, raped in Irish reform schools

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2009-05-20 14:30

Story here. Excerpt:

'DUBLIN – A fiercely debated, nine-year investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.

High Court Justice Sean Ryan on Wednesday unveiled the 2,600-page final report of Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse, which is based on testimony from thousands of former students and officials from more than 250 church-run institutions.
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"A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from," the report concluded.

The commission said overwhelming, consistent testimony from still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s, had demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system treated children more like prison inmates and slaves than people with legal rights and human potential.'

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Is it any wonder religion has acquired a bad name?

Even as noted in Bible prophecy, false religion will soon meet its end, and rightly so. It's prime time to remove ourselves from any connection with false religion, before the government steps in to destroy it.

MAJ

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Submitted by digital_dreamer on Wed, 2009-05-20 22:00

Unlike during the U.S. 'priest abuse' scandal, where the sole focus was on men.
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2009-05-21 12:27