IRELAND
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February 20, 2018

By Joe Little

[See the report published today by Tusla, the state agency in Ireland that oversees child welfare issues: Audit of Religious Orders, Congregations and Missionary Societies Safeguarding Arrangements and Management of Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse – Volume 2 – Section 1 and Section 2. See also Volume 1 on the dioceses in Ireland, published on October 11, 2012.]

Five Catholic religious orders have been criticised by the Child and Family Agency’s audit for their “significant (child) safeguarding weaknesses”.

Tusla’s report on the response to child sexual abuse by 135 orders says it worked closely with four of the weakest ones until it was satisfied that each had significantly improved its safeguarding practices, while another church-appointed audit body supervised the fifth.

Today’s report censures the Christian Brothers, De La Salle Brothers, the Irish Norbertines, the Missionaries of the Sacred…