{"id":275706,"date":"2024-09-04T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=275706"},"modified":"2024-09-04T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T02:11:46","slug":"ireland-shocking-abuse-in-religious-schools-education-minister-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=275706","title":{"rendered":"Ireland: &#8216;Shocking&#8217; abuse in religious schools &#8211; Education Minister Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/20240904-Europe.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Education Minister Norma Foley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>DUBLIN,<strong>\u00a0Sept 4<\/strong> (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; There were almost 2,400 allegations of sexual abuse in more than 300 schools run by religious orders in Ireland, according to a report commissioned by the Irish government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education Minister Norma Foley said it was the first time the scale of abuse had been disclosed, and it was \u201ctruly shocking&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Irish cabinet has agreed to establish a full statutory investigation, following the findings of the \u201cscoping inquiry report\u201d, which is due to be published shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a news conference, Foley said the report found there were 884 alleged abusers in 42 orders which formerly ran schools or still do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She noted that the report recommended that the religious organisations should contribute to a financial redress scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said victims and survivors had shown \u201cextraordinary courage\u201d in coming forward to share their personal stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foley said schools should be places of \u201chaven, not horror\u201d and that abusers \u201cbroke down\u201d young people in their care instead of building them up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government now plans to appoint a chair for the full inquiry, called a Commission of Investigation, and draw up terms of reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00e1naiste (Irish deputy Prime Minister) Miche\u00e1l Martin said that the &#8220;level and scale of the horrific abuse within schools revealed in the report&#8217;s pages is shocking, and there must be full accountability and justice for those abused&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN,\u00a0Sept 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; There were almost 2,400 allegations of sexual abuse in more than 300 schools run by religious orders in Ireland, according to a report commissioned by the Irish government. Education Minister Norma Foley said it was the first time the scale of abuse had been disclosed, and it was \u201ctruly shocking&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":275708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275712,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275706\/revisions\/275712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}