Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last week or so, you’ll have found it very hard to avoid the publishing of the Child Abuse Commission Report, and the public outcry that ensued. The report merely confirmed what anyone with half a brain already knew – that schools and orphanages run by religious orders in Ireland were rampant with child abuse in several ways, be it rape, physical abuse, or emotional torment for the children involved. However, the report did not name names, nor did it initially look like this would happen. On top of this, the maximum amount the religioius orders could be held liable for compensation for was around €128 million – a figure agreed almost ten years ago. Amazingly enough, even today the religious orders have not paid that full amount to victims of their child abuse.
Religious orders were given money by the state to run our schools. More than enough money, as it turned out, than was adequate to look after the needs of the children involved. Why then did children live in fear and poverty, in a situation not unlike that of the Jews in Nazi concentration camps? Children – imagine these kids are your own – were made to work like slaves, were malnourished, were raped, beaten, mentally tormented, and several received beatings so bad they ended up with broken limbs and scars which would last a lifetime.
And who were the perpetrators of these crimes against children? Who were these child abusers? The very same people who would stand up on Sundays, tell us how best to live our lives in the most morally correct way possible, shove communion in our mouths, tell us it was the ‘body of christ’, and sit in darkened rooms and listen to our ‘confessions’. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those filthy priests were sat naked behind the confessional wall, playing with themselves as young parishoners told them sorrowfully that they’d had ‘impure thoughts’ and wished to repent. No wonder fuck all people go to mass anymore. Why would you?
What of the nuns? If you read the Child Abuse Commission Report, you’ll find all sorts of insane abuses on their part too. Anyone who says that the sexual abuse was limited to some ‘gay priests’ is sorely mistaken. Young girls were forced to massage the breasts of depraved nuns, and were also beaten and tortured. Both priests and nuns were found to have committed ‘digital rape’ according to the report. If you’re not aware of what digital rape is, it is ‘When someone [rapes] a person using their [finger] or [fingers]‘. So hundreds of priests and nuns were molesting children – boys and girls – on an epic scale. Boys and girls just like the boys and girls you and I will cherish and bring up without smacking them or abusing them in any way. I don’t have kids yet, but I do have an 8 year old niece who I love and adore. It makes me feel sick that children her age and younger were having their childhood taken away from them in such a manner. Thousands of children. I count myself very lucky I wasn’t one of them.
The religious orders involved in all of this are criminals. Not just the perpetrators of the crimes, but the people who have harboured these criminals for so long, and I include the vatican in that. We’ve been listening to these abuser idiots go on for long enough about how world poverty is such a scandal, and we should be helping our less-better-off bretheren by donating to them in various ways. At the same time the church was sitting on billions of euro worth of property, and priests and nuns were living the high life.
If you have any inkling of sympathy or support for the religious orders involved, just look at this video. I have insane amounts of respect for this guy – despite the torment he endured at the hands of paedo priests, he overcame it and even managed to become the mayor of Clonmel for a time. The video below speaks for itself.
I look forward to the day when the paedo priests and nuns are locked up and left to die behind bars – alone and outcast as they should be.
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I have no idea how I ended up on your site, I’m not Irish, I’m not religous, I’ve never been abused but you have expressed this issue in a way that has really touched me. And I agree with you, that ex-Mayor deserves a a knighthood for standing up and telling in real words and feeling what it’s like and how bad the system was.
Hopefully a few more people come along your way and someone, with some influence can make a difference.
Cheers
Ian