Catholic clergy 'abused children for decades in County Donegal'

Report

expected to claim the police were complicit in covering up sexual abuse by priests and laity of the church

County Donegal, Ireland is about to have its bucolic image shattered by a report on how pedophiles, clergy and laity, abused children for decades.

an investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Raphoe in County Donegal is on the report of its findings, which should be overwhelming. Meanwhile, new evidence has emerged of victims of pedophilia ring a parallel operation on the same corner of Gaelic Ireland.

a number of survivors of abuse have told the Guardian that the lay members of the Church and priests sexually abused for years in the county.

And with the expected conclusion of the report of Raphoe, that the National Police, Guard, was complicit in a culture of cover-up that allowed the authors to carry out the abuse.

Speaking for the first time in his violence as a child and the cover-up, John O'Donnell revealed that she had been abused since she was nine years by a member Lay a local church choir.

"I was assaulted by when I was nine until he was 15 years, until I was old enough to know it was wrong. This man took, because I was adopted and considered to be somewhat lower than most children in the region.

"The abuse took place at home and in a store, he ran. It lasted from 1965 to 1972."

O'Donnell said that in 1973 he went to a local Garda station to report she had been raped by the man who died. He said the reaction of his complaint was violent.

"A local guard was angry that he has appointed an honorary member of the community, either as a child rapist. The officer gave me a slap in my face and m 'told to go. He told me I was adopted and is worthless. From that day is never completely trust a member of the Guard. "

For years, O'Donnell said, he hid what had happened, and married and raised a family without discussing it with their families. Only at the end of 1990 when the revelations of widespread abuse of children has shaken the Catholic Church in Ireland, he decided to confront what had happened.

• "I discovered that my attacker was still in the church choir and I was shocked because I was working with children. So I took a rectory in the area and tried to speak with the pastor. .. About the man at the time had finally arrived somewhere with the Guard and had questioned the man in a police station priest, Donegal informed about it, but not even let me in the door their continued: "No, no , no ... I'm not talking to you about that. "I did not know, and remember it was only in 2005."
• O'Donnell said the other victims of this part of Donegal have been decided, with a picture emerges of an organized pedophile ring. Police are investigating his allegations.

The Guardian spoke to a number of other men in Donegal similar accusations have a ring of abuse and cover-up for decades.

Throughout the decades of denial, young people who were attacked by pedophiles in the province, both inside and outside the church, was a champion -. Retired police inspector, Martin song

Ridge, moved to the province at the end of his career, and became so concerned about the indifference of the authorities who wrote a book about the experiences of children, breaking the silence.
He predicted that the report would Raphoe "reprehensible" and exposed to the same culture of "denial and cover-up local" found in other Catholic dioceses in Ireland.

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