Damning evidence has been presented in the 9-year investigation into Catholic Church-run reform schools in Ireland that confirm decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings of castaway children.
Among the crimes they found were:
- a history of official cover-ups of pedophiles within the church since the 1930s.
- a pattern of beatings, abuse, and molestation in church-run workhouses.
- molestation and rape were “endemic” at the boys’ workhouses.
- ritualized beatings and personal abuse and denigration.
- kids were falsely told that their parents or siblings were dead.
- a continuing insistence on protecting the child molesters in their ranks.
- whistleblowers were accused of being “money-seeking liars”.
- the Irish government cut a deal with the Catholic church to cap their losses to lawsuits at $175 million…which is only a tiny part of the full cost.
It still amazes me that people accuse me of mean-spirited hyperbole when I call the Catholic Church the most powerful organized crime syndicate in the world. C’mon, this one case alone puts John Gotti’s little operation to shame. You add Father O’Grady his ilk into the mix and Capone looks like a small time hustler.
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