Irish Nuns Pay $193-Million For Child Abuse
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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According to media reports Friday, The Irish Sisters of Mercy is to pay $193-million in damages for decades of child abuse in its schools and orphanages.
The Sisters of Mercy said the cash and property was “reparation for the suffering of children while in residential institutions within Mercy care”.
The Sisters of Mercy said in a statement it “wholeheartedly regrets the suffering experienced by the children in their care” and hoped this latest offer would show that its nuns were being “faithful to the values of reparation, reconciliation, healing and responsibility.”
According to Wikipedia, the Order was condemned in an Irish government report on 20 May 2009 entitled the Ryan Report of “The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.” The Irish Sisters of Mercy, in company with the Irish Christian Brothers, were two of the principal religious orders named in the report as being the most abusive. The Report described the Mercy order’s tolerating physical and sexual abuse of girls in its care in Ireland. Not only that, Mercy Sisters were accused in the report of physically, verbally and emotionally, and perhaps even sexually abusing, or allowing lay personnel to sexually abuse children under the care of the order.
A Irsh government redress scheme has already paid out one billion euros in compensation and legal fees to over 13,000 victims, reports the AFP.
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