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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11One of the things that struck me at the demonstration on the 10th June to remember the victims of abuse in clerical run institutions was how difficult the post-institution experience has been also, for many who attended these institutions. One of the ex-residents (or inmates as she preferrd to be called) told me 'we have a look about us'. Some very precious part of their humanity was robbed from them in these institutions and they continue to struggle through life because of it. But they need more from us than to break into a rant about the powers who were responsible (and those powers do need to be held accountable). They need to be listened to and protected like they weren't in those places. Like the children today who suffer similarly from the inadequacies in the Social Care system, so excellently portrayed in the above article, the voice of that suffering needs to be held in focus.
The 'cover your ass' attitude is partly a reaction to the compo culture in the civil litigation courts. In schools many male teachers dare not talk alone to a child outside lesson time. I've met a father of four children who has an excellent teaching record and participates in community affairs. He told me he always leaves a classroom door open when talking to a child and prefers if he can get one of the female teachers to do the talking job.
Apart from that there are many parts of the country where neighbours who suspect that children are being ill treated by parents dare not go to the guards, or even a doctor or priest, because they are unsure of what legal repercussions such action might bring if, by any chance, their suspicions proved unfounded. Remember so many months ago that horrible child incest case involving an alcoholic mother? The Sunday Tribune reported on the case and a couple of villagers posted blog comments contradicting witness reports that the children were poorly clothed and lacking in hygiene.
On the Ryan report revelations, there remains the question of how many individuals who visited industrial and reformatory schools as tradesmen, suppliers of meat and vegetables, and as chaplains and education officials, sensed that degrading things were going on. The testimony of a few such individuals is in the Ryan report, but how many others were there during all those awful years? Why did bishops and ministers for education and justice do nothing, absolutely nothing, when mysterious deaths occurred and complaints were received about ill treatment?
So we have taken children away from being beaten and raped by nuns, priests and known carers in "detention" centres called reform schools and instead dumped them onto the street to be beaten and raped, and hooked on drugs by unknown strangers, while they freeze and starve. So where is the improvement?
i got a niece in care on 18 of january 09 i be assesses on 28th Aprill 09 to carers for her
famil members looking after her would be in a
position to provide the high level of care she requires at this time she is still under weight for her age and still feeds very slowly this does not however rule out family members applying to care for her when she is a bit old and her weight and feeding issues have been resolved in court judge say eas advised that me period of eight weeks.
now she is 9-month-old: and 4Week and
feed and weight is now been resolved
a is still in care back in court 6 october is apply
for another extension of the interim care
the social work go for a full care order in november or december
could care for her in the familie home at the social work is still say no
Thank You
To this day the church still have to much power in Irish Society and scandals are STILL unfolding (easily accessilbe from a google search or from websites like Clerical Whispers) and that such corruption still exists should be a cause of grave concern to fellow citizens. The CRUELTY inflicted on people by Priests and Nuns will NEVER EVER be forgotten and many living today cannot escape those miserable memories of so much pain. At the same time many nuns now live in nice houses and have land (THE PEOPLES' LAND) while victims of such abuse are living in Flats alone as some could not marry as their nerves were damaged so much. Good bye to Catholic Ireland?? Not necessarily so. I do go to mass in St. Teresa's Grafton Street but sometimes it makes me SICK to hear priests pontificating after all people went true. Then the question arises should priests and nuns be able to marry? Would this fulfill their sexual desires? All in all, shame of the church. And shame on those who are part of the SYSTEMATATIC COVER-UP.
Humbled by the pain caused to people who have written on the earlier postings. However, in a changing economy for the worst, with a prediction that Ireland could become a sex capital of Europe, we need to hasten our legislation to protect our vulnerable children.
The media reported today that there is a Child Abuse network in the UK (it is probable in Ireland also). This hidden network of child sex abuse traffickers is reported on by Barnardos in Britain. Barnardos report that one in six children whom they counsel for sexual exploitation talk about being passed around by paedophiles. The technique is simple. An apparently kind man will buy them food and drink and then give them a mobile phone. Then the process of isolation starts and after 6 months these children in their aloneness and isolation get sucked into the murky waters of paedophiles.
We need to be alert here in the Island of Ireland. Spare a thought for a vulnerable child on these dark and lonely nights. Observe. Watch out for gifts of mobile phones and always be alert to a vested interest by a third party! We have a responsibility, even if not explicitly stated in our Constitution, to ensure the welfare of our Children.
"So we have taken children away from being beaten and raped by nuns, priests and known carers in "detention" centres called reform schools and instead dumped them onto the street to be beaten and raped, and hooked on drugs by unknown strangers, while they freeze and starve. So where is the improvement?"
Well, now there is more public money available for bailing out our rich friends in the construction / banking / corporate sectors because we are not wasting it on subdising those helping vulnerable children. Get with the program ok? Duh!
I share the concern of the previous posters. Social services and education programmes are being scrapped by the government to pay for bank bailouts and the economists are saying that the inequality , poverty and social exclusion that gave rise to these abuses of vunerable children is likely to return . With the publication of the Ryan Report , the government has effectively consigned the abuse of children to history , and effectively given the Catholic Church as it exists today a clean bill of health. Could we find the churches and other "charitable " institutions again being invited to play a role in the education and welfare of our children?
Kevin Flanagan whose brother was "the boy with the broken arm " mentioned in the Artane report has organised a public meeting in the Axis Centre for next month where these points will be raised . All survivors of abuse and their supporters are welcome.
Details of the December meeting here .
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94538&comment_limit=0&c...62275
at last a social worker with a brain i disapeared ages 11 to another country no one looked for me even though they knew i was in danger i have all my files to prove this if one person had bothered to ask me if i was ok i would have gotten away from the abuse years sooner and maybe been alot happier with adifferent family as thing stood i left age 15 to start my own life and i survived and will tell the tale ! very loudley ! just won my case wthish took me 10 years got justice but i cannot buy back my childhood and neither can any other abused child .
Hello ..Just to add to your horrible dilemna Bernadette and i dont wish to sound like Cruella .
Why not have another go at the authorities for their neglect of you as a child ,Ask for legal advice on a law known as
''Reckless Endangerment'' ..Hope you stuff them ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/14/justice/catholic-bish...ories
we seem to have exported our priests to the US?