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	Major Irish Order of Catholic Nuns Offers ˆ128 Million in Reparations to Child Abuse Victims Breaking News December 3, 2009 http://blog.taragana.com/n/major-irish-order-of-catholic-nuns-offers-e128-million-in-reparations-to-child-abuse-victims-239586/ Irish nuns offer ˆ128M for permitting child abuse DUBLIN — A major Irish order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, is offering to pay victims of child abuse, the government and charities nearly ˆ128 million ($193.5 million) to compensate for decades of abuse in its schools and orphanages. Thursday’s compensation offer is the largest yet from 18 orders of Catholic priests, brothers and nuns who ran schools, workhouses and orphanages for generations of Ireland’s most deprived children until the 1990s. State investigators in May ruled that all the orders permitted and covered up endemic rape, molestation, beatings and mental cruelty in their children’s institutions. The government responded by demanding that the orders pay more to help cover compensation payments to more than 14,000 abuse claimants topping ˆ1 billion ($1.51 billion).
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