Clergy Sex Abuse Reported from Ireland shows more victims

May 20th, 2009
Thousands of children abused in Irish institutions, report finds
Posted: 12:55 PM ET
(CNN) — Thousands of children suffered sexual abuse, beatings, malnutrition and emotional abuse for decades in the Irish institutions where they were raised, an Irish government commission said Wednesday.

Catholic clergy ran the vast majority of the reformatories and orphanages where the abuse allegedly took place, it said.

There were institutions where sexual abuse was a “chronic problem” and where “floggings” that “should not have been tolerated in any institution” were “inflicted for even minor transgressions,” the commission’s wide-ranging report says.

The report details the case of one “serial sexual and physical abuser” who “physically terrorized and sexually abused children in his classroom” in six schools over a period of 40 years — and was “persistently protected” by church and educational authorities. The man, identified only by a pseudonym, was finally convicted of sexual abuse in the 1980s, the report says.
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