IRELAND
Irish Independent
10 DECEMBER 2013
THE audit on the Christian Brothers by the National Board for Safeguarding Children found allegations of abuse against a staggering 325 brothers relating to 870 incidences of abuse.
All of these incidences the NBSCCCI found had been reported to the gardai and HSE.
But the files read by the reviewers left them in no doubt that a great number of children were seriously abused by Brothers.
And according to the NBSCCCI the historical evidence makes it clear that a substantial safeguarding deficit existed within the Province prior to the early 1990s.
The years 1995 –2008 marked a period of acute and fundamental change for the Province evidenced by a dramatic rise in complaints, against deceased, former and living Brothers.
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