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	Abused Victims Urge Wider Probe Straits Times November 27, 2009 http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_459884.html DUBLIN - INVESTIGATIONS into child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland should be widened nationwide, a leading campaigner said on Friday a day after a damning study condemned a decades-long cover-up. The call came as one Irish newspaper branded the abuse of children in Catholic Church's care, which was covered up for more than 30 years by senior clergy, as 'satanic', blasting the 'rampant evil'. 'We are looking at this commission's report as the end of its work,' said Ms Marie Collins, a campaigner and survivor of abuse by a serial deviant priest named as Father Edmondus in the report. 'What I would call for, straight away, is for the remit (of the commission) to be extended to all of the dioceses in the country,' she told the RTE state broadcaster. Following a three-year investigation in the Dublin Archdiocese, the country's largest, a report on Thursday concluded that four archbishops routinely protected abusers and failed to inform police of the allegations. Ireland's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Sean Brady, and Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin responded by public apologies to all the victims of abuse, and promises that it would not happen again. But newspaper commentators voiced anger at the report, which come just six months after a landmark report of widespread sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children in Catholic-run institutions dating back to the 1930s. -- AFP
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