Why aren’t these child abusers in jail in addition to the financial compensation?  Where’s the justice in allowing them to buy their way out of their abuse?  And I don’t think their regret will help those damaged by their abuse.  According to the article they are guilty of permitting and covering up endemic rape, molestation, beatings and mental cruelty in their children’s institutions.

Church orders and parish priests today remain official patrons of most schools, and the Sisters of Mercy congregation also owns key Dublin hospitals. What the hell?  Why?  Did the Irish government learn nothing?  All child abuse is horrific, but even  more so when done in a religious environment and the government turns a blind eye.

DUBLIN – A major Irish order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, offered Thursday to pay child abuse victims, the government and charities a further $193.5 million to compensate for decades of abuse in its schools and orphanages.

The compensation offer to the Irish Education Department is by far the largest from 18 orders of Catholic priests, brothers and nuns found guilty of chronic child abuse. They ran scores of residential schools, workhouses and orphanages for generations of Ireland’s most deprived children from the mid-19th century to the 1990s.

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.”

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