IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Patricia Casey
Monday June 04 2012
When an epidemic appears during specified dates it is important to ask why did it happen at this time and not at another?
This question is relevant now in relation to The Child Safeguarding and Protection Service (CSPS) of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Its annual Child Protection Update provides statistical information on child sexual abuse by priests in the Dublin Diocese.
The figures show that since the late 1980s there has been a fall-off in abuse.
– 2pc of these priests are alleged to have abused in the 1940s
– 4pc of these priests are alleged to have abused in the 1950s
– 23pc of these priests are alleged to have abused in the 1960s
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