Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children. 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.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child-abuse-claims
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.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child-abuse-claims