New studies from the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (ISPCC), the Irish government, and personal accounts from
survivors have brought to light new allegations against Irish industrial
schools. Over a course of one hundred years, Catholic-run industrial
schools were extremely common.
These schools became a source of rampant sexual and physical abuse towards children between the ages of six and fourteen.1 Over one hundred and thirty thousand children were committed into Irish industrial schools and, up until the final school closed in 1969, very little was done to protect the children living under such conditions.
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/article/sexual-abuse-irish-industrial-schools
These schools became a source of rampant sexual and physical abuse towards children between the ages of six and fourteen.1 Over one hundred and thirty thousand children were committed into Irish industrial schools and, up until the final school closed in 1969, very little was done to protect the children living under such conditions.
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/article/sexual-abuse-irish-industrial-schools