Ireland: Catholic Priests Abused Thousands of Youngsters from 1975 to 2004
April 10th, 20091975 to 2004? This must be the abridged version.
Via: AP:
The Archbishop of Dublin said Thursday that an upcoming report on child sexual abuse involving Catholic priests will likely reveal that thousands of youngsters were abused from 1975 to 2004.
The report “will shock us all,” said Diarmuid Martin, during Mass at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral.
The archbishop said the report, compiled by the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation, is expected to show that “thousands of children or young people across Ireland were abused by priests in the period under investigation and the horror of that abuse was not recognized for what it is.”
The government-appointed commission was set up to investigate abuses within the Dublin archdiocese in 2006, the same year the diocese admitted that up to 102 of its priests were suspected of abusing children. The report is studying how complaints of child sexual abuse were handled.
Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
Yeah, and what’s the excommunication count for these perverts? Still ZERO? But if you get divorced, not THAT’S a serious “crime”.
Could the Catholic Church possibly be more morally bankrupt?
It is not just the Catholic Church, but also the civil authorities who aid and abet these atrocities. Here in Augusta, Maine, both the Augusta Police Department and the Kennebec County District Attorney’s Office were aware for many years that priests in St. Mary’s and St. Augustine’s Parishes were sexually abusing children. But both agencies protected the Catholic Church and abusing priests, fearing repercussions from voters and a majority French and Irish Catholic population in the area.