THE catalogue of horrors uncovered about institution after institution
entrusted with the care of our most vulnerable infants, children, young
girls, and women is so disturbing that it is hard to know how to react
to another series of shocking revelations.
Our first, almost understandable, instinct might be to look away, but that would be another betrayal of those vulnerable, abandoned people made victims by a relentless and cruel system, a system run in the main by Catholic religious orders but endorsed by the State and operated in the full, unquestioning knowledge of this society.
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Our first, almost understandable, instinct might be to look away, but that would be another betrayal of those vulnerable, abandoned people made victims by a relentless and cruel system, a system run in the main by Catholic religious orders but endorsed by the State and operated in the full, unquestioning knowledge of this society.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/ourview/legacy-of-abuse-alive-and-active--hse-adoption-report-334049.html