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Investigation to Open in Ireland After 2,300 Abuse Allegations in Religious-Run Schools
National Catholic Register ^ | September 10, 2024 | Andy Drozdziak/CNA

Posted on 09/16/2024 11:22:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind

The Irish government has promised to set up an official investigation to examine historical abuse in religious-run day and boarding schools in light of “appalling” abuse accounts.

The announcement comes as an initial 802-page, five-volume Scoping Inquiry report from the Irish government revealed that 2,395 allegations of abuse had been made in 308 schools between 1927 and 2013. The total number of allegations is believed to be far higher. The allegations were made against 884 abusers. It is believed that half of them have died.

The Scoping Inquiry was set up in the aftermath of a 2022 radio documentary called Blackrock Boys, which revealed how extensive abuse took place at the Spiritan-run Blackrock College in Dublin.

“I am announcing today that the government has accepted the principal recommendation of the Report of the Scoping Inquiry, which is for the establishment of a Commission of Investigation,” Minister for Education Norma Foley said Sept. 3. “Historical sexual abuse is a profoundly serious matter and needs to be examined in detail. The Report of the Scoping Inquiry is a harrowing document, containing some of the most appalling accounts of sexual abuse.

The Scoping Inquiry, written by senior counsel Mary O’Toole, contains extensive accounts of sexual abuse, rape, and sexual assault.

Some of the “harrowing” allegations mentioned by Foley concerned schools for disabled pupils.

The Catholic Education Partnership, which represents the entire Catholic education community across Ireland, acknowledged “the significance of this report, the grave harm caused to survivors and their families, and those who suffered but are no longer with us.” Lamenting the safeguarding failings, the partnership denounced the “gravely dysfunctional and abusive education system with respect to child safeguarding.”

“It is painfully clear that children and the trust of their families were betrayed in the most devastating of ways,” the partnership added.

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TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: catholicdenial; chat; childabuse; fartyshadesofgreen; ireland
Some things are just gross and mind-boggling.
1 posted on 09/16/2024 11:22:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind

Abuse Tracker

Daily guide to media coverage of clergy abuse worldwide, and especially in the US Roman Catholic church. More than 100,000 articles blogged since 2006.

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/


2 posted on 09/16/2024 11:29:47 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: ConservativeMind

The marxist cultural revolution against the Catholic Church (and thus Christianity) continues.

this goes hand-in-hand with everything else going on in Ireland today.


3 posted on 09/16/2024 11:31:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ConservativeMind

This will be the third major inquiry into abuse and coverup by the Church in Ireland after the Ryan and Murphy reports

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_to_Inquire_into_Child_Abuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Report


4 posted on 09/16/2024 11:33:54 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: Jyotishi

Thank you for that.


5 posted on 09/16/2024 11:36:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” - Wm. Shakespeare

Abuse of any sort is inexcusable. Yet it’s also undeniable that these religious did an admirable job of educating the masses, setting the stage for Ireland’s 20th century rise from poverty to wealth.


6 posted on 09/16/2024 11:36:14 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: PGR88

Why not investigate abuse by movie producers, college professors, primary and secondary teachers in non-Catholic schools? And finally why not investigate abuse by civil servants and elected officials for the past 40 years or so?


7 posted on 09/16/2024 11:42:52 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: ConservativeMind

Will they also investigate abuse in state-run schools?


8 posted on 09/16/2024 12:01:25 PM PDT by Petrosius
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2,395 allegations of abuse had been made in 308 schools between 1927 and 2013

Let's do that math. After this Gov't grand inquisition, they have come up with an average of 27.8 "allegations" each year, across reported 308 schools. So that's one abuse "allegation" per school, approx. every 11 years. As you point out, Catholic schools were the large majority of education in Ireland in the previous century - so this is across many millions of students.

Any sexual abuse is bad, of course. I attended Catholic schools in the 1970s ad 1980s, and the only sexual abuse charges I ever heard of were due to homosexual priests - and statistics bear this out.

So the Church spinelessly first accepted (and turned a blind-eye) to prevailing post-modern cultural norms, and allowed homosexuals in the seminaries. Now Satan and his globalist Neo-marxists, are making them pay a double-indemnity, by politically and financially destroying them for this lapse.

As mentioned, this is pure marxist cultural revolution against the pillar of traditional Irish nationhood - the Catholic Church. Once this is taken down, Ireland will be a wasteland to be remade "unburdened by what has been."

The work of marxist destruction proceeds apace. Ireland is almost entirely transformed - politically, culturally, racially.

9 posted on 09/16/2024 12:17:26 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
As mentioned, this is pure marxist cultural revolution against the pillar of traditional Irish nationhood - the Catholic Church. Once this is taken down, Ireland will be a wasteland to be remade "unburdened by what has been." … The work of marxist destruction proceeds apace. Ireland is almost entirely transformed - politically, culturally, racially.

In my diocese, we have had a number of Irish Catholic priests come as missionaries to our country. They gave up a lot to come here. Now as the approach retirement, none are returning to Ireland, not even those with family back there.

They all explain their decision the same way: “Ireland isn’t Ireland any more.”

10 posted on 09/16/2024 12:26:09 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: ConservativeMind

So many different ways to heaven.
wait, wrong article?


11 posted on 09/16/2024 12:29:06 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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I am reminded of all those mass graves reported in Canada, causing churches to be burned all across the nation.

Problem was, when they dug into those mass graves there were not mass graves at all. So “Mass Graves” has now been downgraded to “Unmarked graves.” Unmarked because the wooden markers had rotted away.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-canada-slowly-acknowledging-there-never-was-a-mass-grave

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/no-evidence-of-mass-graves-or-genocide-in-residential-schools

https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/kamloops-mass-grave-debunked-biggest-fake-news-in-canada/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/pine-creek-residential-school-no-evidence-human-remains-1.6941441

Now the shrill voices declaring “MASS GRAVES!” are now blaming it on the Canadian News Media for running with the story.


12 posted on 09/16/2024 12:31:24 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: ConservativeMind

Maybe there’s abuse. Maybe there’s a WEF sponsored program to take out Christianity.


13 posted on 09/16/2024 12:36:08 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: ConservativeMind

good! I remember the movie about the nun-run Irish laundries.


14 posted on 09/16/2024 1:16:02 PM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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good! I remember the movie about the nun-run Irish laundries.

Was that the one about the completely FAKE story of the Tuam Mother's Home in Galway, with nuns burying babies in septic tanks while running a virtual prison camp for destitute women, which turned out be all lies?

There's been so much bulls** and propaganda, its hard to keep up

15 posted on 09/16/2024 1:25:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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I don’t think so, it was the Magdalene Laundries.


16 posted on 09/16/2024 2:01:17 PM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: ConservativeMind
Directing attention away from the huge protests in Ireland about the hoards of “immigrants” who are causing incredible chaos.
17 posted on 09/16/2024 2:52:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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Wait until the “newcomers” get their grooming gangs going.


18 posted on 09/16/2024 2:59:07 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: PGR88
The work of marxist destruction proceeds apace. Ireland is almost entirely transformed - politically, culturally, racially.

Nope...not "almost". Just entirely! Remember,until recently they had an Indian faggot as "Prime Minister". And for the record the transformation is entirely thanks to the European Union,a hornets' nest of Marxists,Maoists and anarchists. And those Marxists,Maoists and anarchists are well on the way to transforming Poland and Hungary,which have been EU members for a lot less time than Ireland.

19 posted on 09/16/2024 3:21:34 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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