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New report into Catholic Church’s coverup of child abuse details ‘horrific acts’


Posted: July 21, 2009.
Published: 21 Jul 2009.

Print: Telegraph.co.uk

The report to Dermot Ahern comes two months after publication of an even bigger investigation into how scores of church-run schools, orphanages and reformatories harboured child abusers in religious orders from the 1930s to 1990s.

Irish taxpayers have already paid out nearly £1bn to more than 12,000 victims from that system.

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