Comments on: Ryan Report — Artane, The Christian Brothers' Gulag

By: paul

paul — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:32:38 +0000

There is a web site Shame of Ireland. It is dedicatrd to survivors of abuse and their familes.
Please Google it for more info.
Also The God Squad. Paddy Doyles web site, this site has plenty of information regarding abuse of children in instutions.

By: kane

kane — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:05:01 +0000

looking at some of the pic,s brings bk the memeries, i had four brothers thire in the 50&60.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:09:54 +0000

my dad suffered at the hands of the 'christain brothers' from the age of 9 (1937). we were all brought up Catholics because our mum was Catholic, but my dad would never even go into a church. He always said, "the things I've seen done to little boys,, there is no God". Now I know what he was trying to tell us.

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:34:34 +0000

That's right, Bill. Make little of the suffering endured by Irish children in Irish church-run prisons.

Who do you think you are quoting bullshit American figures on a subject t that has nothing to do with them?

Are you trying to distract people from what the church was up to? I think that's exactly what you're doing.

You won't get away with that sort of bullshit here, Bill.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:54:00 +0000

10,000 cases internationally in 60 years, thats less than 1 year of incidents in US Public schools.
Facts:

Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests
April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews) Charol Shakeshaft, researcher of 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Dept of Education, "physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100xs the abuse by priests"
2004 study most accurate data available at this time indicates nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct
6 credible cases of clerical sexual abuse in 2009 reported in the bishops annual audit- 65,000,000 members'

October 14, 2009 NY Times reporter Paul Vitello, exposed the sad extent of Child Sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community and details Cover-ups that have long been aided by law enforcement
According to the article, there were 40 cases of such abuse in this tiny Jewish community last year alone, 40 in 1 town!
Yet the Catholic Church had just 9 cases in the same yr nationally.
Orthodox rabbis allowed by the D.A.’s office to settle these cases “internally
Smell Kosher controlled media?

How extensive is the problem of clergy sex abuse in the Jewish community?
Wayward Clergy: Is it Rampant or an Aberration?
Eugene L. Meyer & Richard Greenberg
NY(JTA)-Some experts estimate that "between 18 and 39% of Jewish clergy are involved in Sexual harassment, sexual Exploitation and/or sexual Misconduct -the Same Percentage as Non-Jewish clergy," according to the 2002 book "Sex, Lies, and Rabbis: Breaking a Sacred Trust" written by psychotherapist Charlotte Rolnick Schwab.'

October 14 2009, New York Times, reporter Paul Vitello exposed the sad extent of Child Sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community and details cover-ups that have long been aided by law enforcement.
According to the article, there were Forty cases of such abuse in this tiny community last year alone
40 in 1 town!
Yet the Catholic Church had just 9 cases in the same year across the entire USA.
Smell the Hypocrisy & Kosher controlled media?
Zio Jewish media love to attack Catholic and Christianity.
Protest-ants Abuse rate is Double that of Catholics.

2002, Christian Science Monitor on national survey results by Christian Ministry Resources:
'Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Catholic Church, most US churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant & most of the alleged abusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers
Penn State professor Philip Jenkins, on Pedophiles & Priests: 0.2 & 1.7 percent of Catholic priests are pedophiles. While Protestant Clergy Ranges between 2- 3%.'

By: tracy fahy

tracy fahy — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:19:47 +0000

Trying to find out about my granfather and his brothers who went to atane industrial school i would love to here off any one who knows them there names are michael augustine francis fahy patrick fahy andrew fahy

By: julie

julie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:01:12 +0000

i have just read about the christian brothers at the atane industrial school and i am very shocked at the disgusting treatment they inflicted on the poor children who were unfortunate to be sent there. Sick horrible men hiding behind the cloth.My heart goes out to all the children who had to stay in this horrible disgusting place. The artane may no longer exist but i am sure that the horrible memories stay with these people, my heart goes out to you all..God bless you all xx
julie

By: Marina Goff

Marina Goff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:57:51 +0000

I am so sad reading on this subject my father was raised in this place….wrong word HELL HOLE!!! my father is the most beautiful warm person but will never talk about this place has no memories that he chooses to share…bar one he once told me when i was a child that he stole a potato skin from the kitchen because he was so hungry…he was caught and forced to stand in the gardens naked in the snow for aprox 6 hours as a child i thought yeah right now after reading this i feel i owe my dad a hug….They will rot in hell for what they forced upon children monsters hiding in cloth they make me sick!!!!

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:45:09 +0000

My late beloved father was in Artane from tender age of 7yrs to 16….(he would have been there from approx 1934 -1942).
He never told us much about it ,but that the CB's were sadists and the boys were always hungry. He nearly died there at 8years old from a burst appendix, because he was made to run around the parade area when doubled up suffering from the acute pain.
Unlike an earlier commentator, luckily my father NEVER EVER raised a hand to us children. He was very protective of us and a good loving father, so I suppose it affected different boys in different ways.It is a testament to him that he did not.
I think these CB's should be named and shamed and treated like nazi war criminals and be prosecuted in the courts. Those that are long dead should still be named. We need to appraoch this like the jewish people did the holocaust – and take the catholic church on…because due to the vows of celibracy it attracts the wrong sorts…in fact it is like a peodophiles private club and prob still going on in poorer countries right now.

By: GEORGE

GEORGE — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:04:34 +0000

MY FATHER INLAW WAS IN ARTANE IN 1921 T0 1931 APPROX AND HE SUFFERED PHYSICAL ABUSE AND WOULD NOT APPLY FOR REDRESS , HE DIED AGED 93 2 YEARS AGO WHAT A HERO.

George