Raftery Takes on Complacency about "Past" Church Abuse

[mespilroadflats]

Mary Raftery, spot on again, this time with the abuse in the 1990s in Trudder House, Madonna House, and Cualann.

Secretive State might mislead you to think abuse is thing of the past - The Irish Times - Mon, Jun 01, 2009

"In the 1990s, the Gardaí investigated allegations of abuse of children at the Cualann facility. Again, these were acutely vulnerable children taken into State care for their own safety. Some of these allegations are at the most extreme end of the scale of depravity, involving boys as young as seven. The alleged perpetrator is believed to have fled to England and no prosecution ensued. The response of the nuns was simply to shut down their facility. The children were moved out of what had been their home. Some of them subsequently sought and were awarded damages in court, but no official inquiry of what had happened or how it had occurred was ever produced."

She's right. This is recent stuff, and the state helped cover up this disgrace.

[odie1kanobe]

Who was in power when 1996 report was published and censored ?