I watched and listened to that last night and it sent shivers down my spine.
To be honest it scared the hell out of me just listening to it.
And if we can’t prosecute an individual because an organisation is covering up for them it’s time to call them what they are – a criminal organisation or in this case criminal enterprise.
On this point, if the money the religious orders were given by the state to care for children was used elsewhere (in the Christian Brothers case for their other schools) can the state recoup this money?
what organization would be allowed stand today if it had a brutal sick derpraved evil history like those in this report. These orgs need to be disbanded and their assets broken up and liquidated. For those who say they do good today and there are good people doing good work, let them continue their good work but not under these organizations!! why would anyone want to be associated with these organizations. You cant have thousands of victims passing these institutions everyday and have them operate in their area knowing what they did to them.
I think Michael O'Brien on Primetime has summed up everything that needs to be said about the report, incredibly brave man, he managed to articulate the suffering of these kids in a few minutes. Painful to listen to let alone live through.
He was on Newstalk this morning. He said he found out where one of his abusers was living in recent years (in a home I think) and went to confront him.
I realise they were extremely lucky but is it not strange that such good existed amonst such evil.
...50’s to the 70’s by the standards of our time and yet the harsh reality is that children in this country were beaten and dehumanised in schools...
The “good old days” of domination, abuse and dehumanisation are gone; good riddance to them.
I’m 36 and I remember being beaten to the ground and kicked in 4th class in primary school. The teacher involved was not a member of a religious order and was in his 20’s at the time. He is now the special needs teacher in the same school. I want to a Christian brothers secondary school but there were few brothers left and they were not violent.Hell, I am only 33 and I got the last remnants of the Christian Brothers in the 90's and there were a couple of evil sadistic *******s there so can only imagine what they got away with in the past.
I’m 36 and I remember being beaten to the ground and kicked in 4th class in primary school. The teacher involved was not a member of a religious order and was in his 20’s at the time. He is now the special needs teacher in the same school. I want to a Christian brothers secondary school but there were few brothers left and they were not violent.
My point was that while there was still violence against children in the 80’s and 90’s it was far less socially acceptable by then.
and when they got home their parents hit them again for "giving the brother cheek" or so such thing.I can only try and imagine what it must have been like in the bad old days when nobody stood up to that type of behaviour and kids didn't have anyone to look out for them.
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