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A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.
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It concluded that church officials always shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest to protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers
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Both the church and the Irish government should be absolutely ashamed of themselves and embarrassed by their inactions.
The perpetrators who are still living should also be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible....but they cant.
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But its findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions — in part because the Christian Brothers successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names, whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document.
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Just way too hard to fathom the depth and scope of this stuff....and the continuing coverup is yet another black mark on that fine country and on the Catholic church. Just repulsive.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/...catholic_abuse