Sex abuse 'endemic' in Catholic institutions

More than 800 priests, nuns, monks and teachers created an "endemic" culture of child sex abuse in Catholic schools and residential homes over almost 80 years, an inquiry has found.  The state-funded institutions in Ireland were a "secret and closed world run on fear", the decade-long report concluded. However, no new prosecutions are expected.

The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse found that nuns and priests terrorised children and covered up years of brutality, rape and molestation in workhouse-style schools. Ritual beatings were encouraged and paedophiles were shielded. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5356720/Sex-abuse-endemic-in-Catholic-institutions.html