Jesuits confirm sex abuse cover-up at Belvedere College
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:44 pm
From todays IT - Jesuits confirm sex abuse cover-up at Belvedere College
How many of these cases do we have to hear about before we say, the church and religious orders of any hue are no longer permitted to educate our children?
I am pretty strongly anti our schools being in the grip of religion for various reasons, but this makes my blood boil.In 1977, a “credible” sexual abuse allegation against him was brought to the attention of the college authorities “in order that they would deal with it”, a draft report written by the Jesuits says.
However, the matter of reporting the abuse to gardaí “did not arise in any conversation at the time”, the school’s former headmaster, Fr Noel Barber told the inquiry
How many of these cases do we have to hear about before we say, the church and religious orders of any hue are no longer permitted to educate our children?