After a nine-year investigation, a commission published
a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and
beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools for Ireland's
castaway children. The 2,600-page report painted the most detailed and damning
portrait yet of church-administered abuse in a country grown weary
of revelations about child molestation by priests.
The investigation of the tax-supported schools uncovered previously secret Vatican records that demonstrated church knowledge of pedophiles in their ranks all the way back to the 1930s. Wednesday's five-volume report on the probe - which was resisted by Catholic religious orders - concluded that church officials shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest amid a culture of self-serving secrecy.
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The investigation of the tax-supported schools uncovered previously secret Vatican records that demonstrated church knowledge of pedophiles in their ranks all the way back to the 1930s. Wednesday's five-volume report on the probe - which was resisted by Catholic religious orders - concluded that church officials shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest amid a culture of self-serving secrecy.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/article_2227b1be-fc7a-55e1-81aa-e190612836d6.html?mode=print