11/28/09

Irish church and police covered up child sex abuse, says report | World news | guardian.co.uk


Ireland's police colluded with the Catholic church in covering up clerical child abuse in Dublin on a huge scale, according to a damning report on decades of sex crimes committed by priests.

The devastating report on the sexual and physical abuse of children by the clergy in Ireland's capital from 1975 to 2004 accuses four former archbishops, a host of clergy and senior members of the Garda Síochána of a cover-up.

The three-volume report found that the 'maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church and the preservation of its assets' was more important than justice for the victims."...more
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