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Thread #121006 Message #2637484
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
21-May-09 - 08:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Child abuse in Ireland
Subject: RE: BS: Child abuse in Ireland
Abuse of children, especially those most vulnerable in the care system, has been all to widespread.
I was certainly not inferring that it was in any way an Irish issue.
It is just that the oppressive power and influence enjoyed by the church, as noted by contributors to this thread, was a facet ot the Republic and well within living memory, and that it allowed paedophiles and sadists who enjoyed the protection of the church a ready supply of victims and immunity from justice.
That immunity is still being enjoyed now, is it not?