There have been many reports of sexual and physical abuse of children by nuns. In
2009, the Sisters of Mercy offered to pay "a further €128m (£117m) to
compensate for decades of abuse in its schools and orphanages."
"The
compensation offer to the Irish education department is by far the
largest from 18 orders of Catholic priests, brothers and nuns found
guilty of chronic child abuse... "A
nine-year state investigation ruled that all the orders permitted and
covered up endemic rape, molestation, beatings and mental cruelty in
their children's institutions."
