Inquiry disclosed a disproportionately large number of allegations at these institutions
The single highest incidence of abuse reported to the inquiry concerning a single institution was at Lota, a special school run by the Brothers of Charity at Glanmire, Co Cork. Photograph: istock, was that a quarter of the 2,395 abuse allegations made by survivors of 308 schools originated in just 17 special needs schools.
Abuse suffered at Brothers of Charity school once described as ‘little short of permanent crucifixion’Schools abuse: Sorrow of religious orders just ‘hollow words’ if redress funding doesn’t follow, says Harris The then director of the Brothers of Charity in Galway, Patrick McGinley, who commissioned the Kilcornan report, told The Irish Times at the time that Kilcornan was “not unique” when it came to low standards in the residential care of people in Ireland with severe physical and intellectual disabilities.
She explained how she had “been made aware of the likelihood of up to 100 residents being sexually abused there over the years”. Such incidents involved “many by Brothers of Charity, many by other service users who have been so corrupted they simply copy the sexual behaviour that was perpetrated against them”.
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