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Child abuse scandal was Ireland’s nightmare from hell

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Wednesday’s publication of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse reflects Ireland’s shameful holocaust.

The generals and the captains of the Department of Education and the Irish Catholic Church stood by and allowed our national nightmare from hell to happen.

This was our Nuremberg trial, Irish-style, with no names, no prosecution and no court appearances.

In a statement on the RTE Six One News, the Irish Christian Brothers expressed their sorrow and will now co-operate with the authorities.

It was the same Christian Brothers that sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report.

Justice has not been done as many of the abusers will never face the rigours of the law.

Shame on those that inflicted sheer cruelty, neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse that was perpetrated against Ireland’s children.

Lets us insist, as a caring people, that we never allow this to happen again.

David Moore

Donabate, Co Dublin

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i spent 14yrs of my life in 5 different institutions and the redress board blamed my mother for what happened to me !! the redress board will be survivors third ultimate betrayl !! compensation was a pittance !! compared to the lifetime of suffering we have had and will endure !

Posted by daniel wade | 15.06.09, 17:13 GMT

i was one of those thousands of children who was abused for sixteen years of my life by the sisters of mercy and the christian brothers i am know 55 years of age and i have a lot of health problems due to the abuse i received from those perverts i have left ireland because of it no compensation is enough too make up for what they done to us we where innocent children i was an orphan and only a baby when i was put into cappoquin and then sent to hell ferryhouse in clonmel i

Posted by james green | 13.06.09, 14:06 GMT

Surely the Nuremburg trial had real accused, real convicts and real sentences....surely that is what needs to follow this report....if it doesnt, then letting the guilty go free and unpunished kinda excuses the excesses of their crimes and makes us all accomplices? or am i naive?

Posted by Malachy Mulligan | 25.05.09, 22:09 GMT

Good letter David. These people have disgraced the Roman Catholic church here and make one even ashamed to be Irish. The abusers must come before a court of law, anything less is unjust.

Posted by TJ McClean | 25.05.09, 16:33 GMT

I'm don't quite understand this situation of anonymity. Is it a condition of their redress , that the victims have received compensation without being allowed to name the perpetrators of their abuse, independent of the Commission Report -surely not ! What have we got a free press for !

Posted by Malachy McAnespie | 25.05.09, 14:52 GMT

The Irish Catholic Church contravened the UN charter that children not be deprived of their liberty----that would include child slave labour,sex abuse--etc etc the shame of it all.

Posted by Richard Ryan | 23.05.09, 07:27 GMT