Tom Hayes' first memories are those of the physical abuse he suffered in a school run by priests of the Christian Brothers' congregation in Limerick county, Ireland. More than 50 years after Hayes, 62, was sexually abused by an older
monitor in his school, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse in
Ireland's reform schools has released its final report. Now Hayes told
ABC News that he's "glad the report was published in his lifetime."
More than 3,000 abuse victims sent applications to the Commission to
have their stories heard. The report chronicles "endemic and repeated"
sexual, physical and motional abuse by Catholic priests and nuns to
children in the period from 1930 until the Catholic Churchchurch-run institutions were closed in the 1990's.