This is BS! Another attack on Christianity by the liberal media. Why did they study religious schools rather than secular ones? All of these “victims” are getting $90k. Look for hundreds more to crawl out of the woodwork to say the nuns slapped their knuckles with a ruler.
Was this based on anecdotal reports or do they have any actual evidence to back up the accusations?
It is interesting that the report covers 86 years and involved interviewing 1090 witnesses. I have to wonder just how much of a percentage 1090 is of the overall students cared for in those schools. Not that it excuses any abuse which I do not doubt occured but it might help put things in perspective.
If this is a low percentage how can this report prove the problem is endemic? If not how does it compare to state run schools of the era which were not affliated with any religion?
Because in Ireland there were virtually no secular schools - the entire education system was run by the Church.
I am Irish and I can tell you that it is not BS. Americans may find these facts hard to believe, but no one in Ireland doubts it. If you don’t believe me google ‘Artane’. These schools were not ordinary schools comparable to American public schools - they were institutional schools where children who were orphans or were delinquents were locked up for their entire childhood, from the time they arrived until being kicked out the gates at 16. The evidence is overwhelming and stomach-turning.