LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 - The confidential personnel files of 126 clergymen in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles accused of sexual misconduct with children provide a numbing chronicle of 75 years of the church's shame, revealing case after case in which the church was warned of abuse but failed to protect its parishioners. Skip to next paragraph Ric Francis/Associated Press Cardinal Roger M. Mahony has remained the leader of the Los Angeles Archdiocese despite numerous sexual ab...

LETTERFRACK While Letterfrack holds these graves these boys will NEVER be at rest   DETENTION ORDERS

NUNS STORES Maureen O’Connell, a deputy of the Dail, responded to allegations that babies were being taken from England to Ireland then sold for export saying; ‘In three years 523 babies have been sent to America.’ The full extent of Baby Trafficking in the Republic of Ireland, where the first Adoption Law was passed in 1959, is still emerging. Baby Trafficking in t...

New Page 2 The Abusers Would the fact that I NAMED Br. O'HANLON, of the Rosminian Order, as my abuser SHAME HIM? Would Br. O'HANLON be vilified in his own "religious community"? Would Br. O'HANLON's "religious community" ostracise him ? Would the fact that I NAMED Br. O'HAGEN, of the Rosminian Order, as my abuser SHAME HIM? Would Br. O'HAGEN be vilified in his own "religious community"? Would Br. O'HAGEN's "religious co...

LONDON appears to be under the cosh again .... amazing that these religious ZEALOTS think that Londoners, and those who have made London their home think that Londoners can be intimidated. London and Britain survived the worse the Nazis chould throw at them and many many survivors of the Institutions found London to be a refuge. Best Wishes to everyone in London. SHOOTING (from the BBC) A man has been shot at Stockwell Tube station by armed police officers, police confirmed. Passengers w...

Little Bernard Kerrigan, who died while in the "tender care" of the Irish Christian brothers gets TWO graves for his eternal rest.. There are so many anomalies in this graveyard in Letterfrack in the west of Ireland. The monument declares that 61 boys died during the 86 years of it's existence - yet there are 77 graves - and two of those graves appear to hold little Bernard. And only recently the Irish Christian Brothers admitted at the Child Abuse Commission that 100 boys actuall...

Q Q. Can we move on then to the issue of education. You have already described how the boys would have done their Primary Certificate and they were educated. You talk then in your submission about the teacher numbers and you say: "In accordance with the Department of Education rules the number of teachers on the primary school staff was determined by the number of pupils on the roll." ...

Q Q. I see. Can we move on now to a matter which is of primary interest to the work of this Commission and that's part 3 on the allegations of abuse. You start in this section of the submission by dealing with the issue of awareness of sexual abuse? A. Yes. Q. In the course of that you say that the admonition not to fondle pupils as used in the text, that's the Constitution of the Christian Brothers, was meant to wa...

Q Q. Yes. Can we move on to the issue of physical abuse. You are aware, I am sure, that there have been a substantial number of claims by former pupils in Letterfrack of physical abuse? A. Yes. Q. I think you concede at the bottom of page 87 of your submission that "assuredly there were lapses by individual brothers". You says: "The record shows that when a serious breach of standards occurred the matter was repo...

I would love to be able to comme I would love to be able to comment on Dr. Michael Corry's letter (Irish Times, May 19th) concerning the Residential Institutions Redress Board . But if you were to publish my comments I would be in trouble with the law as it now stands. The gagging of me by the law prevents me having any public comment under penalty of a €25.000 fine and/or two years imprisonment. What ...

Joe User The Knitter   WHAT IS CHILD ABUSE ?   Father Hughes and his "testimony" at the Commission to Inquire in Child Abuse Father Hughes refused to describe beatings on the bare buttocks with a strap as 'abuse' Father Hughes stated the sexual abuse allegations were " totally and completely denied " by the Oblates. Father Hughes said the Oblate Order was " surprised " at the numerous complaints of physical abuse received by the commission. Father Hughes said the O...

New Page 3 LEST WE FORGET 1 .... ARTANE :> Artane has 314 COMPLAINTS against it. In the 1940's there were on average 815 children incarcerated in ARTANE and in the 1950's there were on average 628 children incarcerated in ARTANE . There are 171 individuals named and there are 1,038 allegations against these individuals. ARTANE was "managed" by the christian brothers. LEST WE FORGET 2 .... DAING...

The Investigation Committee - REPORT INTO BALTIMORE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL " I have no time really to wait for three or four [or] five years for a finding . . . I only hope that somebody has the courage to take on board these things ." These words come from the transcript of a hearing of the Child Abuse Committee at which a former pupil of the Baltimore Fisheries School (Baltimore School) recounted on oath his experiences of life in that institution in the 1940s. At the time of hearing, the wit...

Child Abuse Commission Reports Child Abuse Commission Reports ..... so far [ SOURCE Third Interim Report] Confidential Committee Physical Abuse "The wilful, reckless or negligent infliction of physical injury on, or failure to prevent such injury to, the child" (Section 1(1) of the Act) FEMALE MALE There were two hundred and eighty-one (281) accounts of physical abuse involving thirtyfi...