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Thread #125363 Message #2777324
Posted By: Jim Carroll
01-Dec-09 - 04:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Suffer The Children (Dublin child abuse)
Subject: RE: BS: Suffer The Children
"and it did appear to go more in a direction, that I don't think he was intending for it to go."
I didn't 'intend it to go' in any direction; I was passing on information that apparently, judging from the silence on the subject, wasn't genarally available and being discussed elsewhere. I fully expected the homophobes to crawl out of the woodwork, and true to form, you obliged, but thankfully you haven't been able to hi-jack the thread for your own particular brand of bigotry.
One of the biggest questions hanging over the affair is, what happens next?
We have a situation where a large number of people have been exposed as having committed serious crimes - paedophilia, rape and physical and sexual abuse - on a massive scale and over a long period. What will the law do about this - prosecute - declare an amnesty - what (bearing in mind that one priest alone has been revealed to have raped 100 boys and 1 girl)?
How does the heirarchy of the church stand in this matter? They have not only covered up serious crimes, but they have facilitated them by passing on the perpetrators to other parishes and, if the situation got out of hand, on to foreign missions where, apparently, it didn't matter tooo much how the clergy behaved. Surely these are serious crimes in themselves. The Bishop of Limerick was singled out in the Murphy report in particular for his behaviour in this respect, but so far, despite calls for his resignation from office, has decided (to date) that he can 'better serve by remaining bishop'.
The enquiries were hampered on several occasions by the church's refusal to pass on relevant documents, claiming it to be a breach of privacy.
Serial rape and abuse, collusion, obstructing the course of justice; these are not minor crimes.
And the role of the state departments, the police, the politicians... What happens to the many officials and state reperesentatives who knew what was happening and did nothing?
And then, the victims themselves , how are they to be recompensed, if at all?
And the church's continuing role in education......?
I don't belive the issues arising from this affair have even been addressed so far, let alone resolved.
Jim Carroll