“..The Roman Catholic church in Dublin obsessively covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by priests until the mid-1990s, an official report says.
The government-commissioned inquiry into abuse in the Irish capital from 1975 to 2004, which came six months after a similarly damning report about Church-run industrial and reform schools, also accused state officials of abetting the cover-up.
The report, designed to show how church and state responded to charges of abusing children ..
.. said a representative sample of 46 priests made “abundantly clear” that it was widespread.
“The Dublin Archdiocese’s pre-occupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid-1990s, were the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the Church, and the preservation of its assets,” the report said.
“All other considerations, including the welfare of children and justice for victims, were subordinated to these priorities,” added the report ..
.. which was published by the justice ministry..”
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