Galway News
May 22, 2009
http://www.galwaynews.ie/7585-house-horrors
 |
THE report into residential institutions by the Child Abuse Commission has revealed that boys younger than eight were subjected to sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the Christian Brothers at the industrial school in Salthill.
While institutions such as Letterfrack in Connemara and Artane in Dublin had a more endemic history of chronic abuse, brothers were consistently moved to St Josephs in Salthill to continue their violent behaviour.
Published this week, 10 years after the inquiry began, the report implicated five Brothers for sexual abuse, one care worker who was a former resident, and another ex-resident who came back years after he had been discharged and got into the building on a number of occasions.
Three of the Brothers came under suspicion when they were in the Institution, while the other two came to notice in industrial schools other than Salthill. One Brother explicitly admitted that he had been guilty of...
Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution.