For over a decade a group of children at St Joseph's industrial
school in Kilkenny were abused. The Sisters of Charity and the then
Minister for Education covered up that abuse and the order of nuns now
refuses to take responsibility for what happened. By Mary Raftery
Some of the most startling revelations to have emerged from the recent public hearings of the Child Abuse Commission concern an industrial school in Kilkenny, St Joseph's, run by the Irish Sisters of Charity. It is a story of a bishop writing coded notes, of references to a mysterious Sister A, of adult seminarians running around naked with young boys, of a bishop too fragile to be told that children had been sexually abused, of cover-up at government minister level – and of a nun who today expresses sorrow on behalf of her order but refuses to apologise. It is above all the tragic story of children subjected to an appalling litany of over a decade of abuse.
http://politico.ie/archive/child-abuse-st-josephs-we-were-not-responsible
Some of the most startling revelations to have emerged from the recent public hearings of the Child Abuse Commission concern an industrial school in Kilkenny, St Joseph's, run by the Irish Sisters of Charity. It is a story of a bishop writing coded notes, of references to a mysterious Sister A, of adult seminarians running around naked with young boys, of a bishop too fragile to be told that children had been sexually abused, of cover-up at government minister level – and of a nun who today expresses sorrow on behalf of her order but refuses to apologise. It is above all the tragic story of children subjected to an appalling litany of over a decade of abuse.
http://politico.ie/archive/child-abuse-st-josephs-we-were-not-responsible
