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.
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