Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Child Abuse....All in the name of The Prince of Peace...
DUBLIN — A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland’s Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades _ and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.
Nine years in the making, Wednesday’s 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run, mostly residential institutions. But victims’ leaders said it didn’t go far enough _ particularly because none of their abusers were identified by name.
The report concluded that church officials always shielded their orders’ pedophiles from arrest to protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers.
The investigators said overwhelming, consistent testimony from still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s, had demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system treated children more like prison inmates and slaves than people with legal rights and human potential.
“A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from,” the final report of Ireland’s Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse concluded.
The leader of Ireland’s 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, and religious orders at the center of the scandal offered immediate apologies.
“I am profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed that children suffered in such awful ways in these institutions. Children deserved better and especially from those caring for them in the name of Jesus Christ,” Brady said.
The Sisters of Mercy, which ran several refuges for girls where the report documented chronic brutality, said in a statement its nuns “accept that many who spent their childhoods in our orphanages or industrial schools were hurt and damaged while in our care.”
http://www.childabusecommission.ie/
Humanity Sux at life and needs to get raped in the face.......
Bet this little girl looks familiar...remember she was getting auctioned off by daddy dearest? This poor kid and her brother just cant get a break.....
MUMBAI, India — The shanty home of another “Slumdog Millionaire” child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part of a city slum where she lived.
Munni Qureshi _ the stepmother of 9-year-old Rubina Ali, who portrayed a young Latika, the Oscar-winning film’s heroine _ said her husband was beaten by police who were supervising the demolition. She said he was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
Last week, bulldozers demolished the home of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, another of the film’s child stars, in a similar cleanup drive. Though “Slumdog Millionaire” won eight Oscars and brought in more than $326 million, it has done little so far to improve the lives of Rubina and Azhar.
“How can the police barge in any time without giving us notice?” Qureshi asked, as she wept holding her forehead. Neighbors poured water over her to keep her cool as she sat in the scorching summer sun with Rubina.
Dozens of police with bamboo batons walked around the alley where Rubina’s house is located and supervised demolition crews of young men wielding sledgehammers and metal rods who tore down the shanty homes.
Slums destroyed because they are illegal or in the way of city development plans often resurface. Government promises of housing are not often met and when slum-dwellers are given homes, it is often in poor-quality buildings on the outskirts of cities, far from their jobs.
Temporary homes have already sprung up in the area where Azhar’s home had been. His family tied blankets and sheets of blue and yellow tarpaulin to a wooden frame to create a shelter.
Rubina and Azhar were discovered on the Mumbai streets by the filmmakers. The film’s adult stars, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, have since shot to international fame. But the lives of the two impoverished child stars _ who live in the slum called Garib Nagar, or the “city of the poor” _ haven’t changed much.
“I’m feeling bad,” Rubina told The Associated Press. “My house had been demolished. I’m thinking about where to sleep.”
“Slumdog” filmmakers say they’ve done their best to help the young stars. They set up a trust to ensure the children get proper homes, a decent education and a nest egg when they finish high school. They have also donated $747,500 to a charity to help slum kids in Mumbai.
Producer Christian Colson has described the trust as substantial, but won’t tell anyone how much it contains _ not even the children’s parents _ for fear of making the youngsters vulnerable to exploitation.
MUMBAI, India — The shanty home of another “Slumdog Millionaire” child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part of a city slum where she lived.
Munni Qureshi _ the stepmother of 9-year-old Rubina Ali, who portrayed a young Latika, the Oscar-winning film’s heroine _ said her husband was beaten by police who were supervising the demolition. She said he was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
Last week, bulldozers demolished the home of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, another of the film’s child stars, in a similar cleanup drive. Though “Slumdog Millionaire” won eight Oscars and brought in more than $326 million, it has done little so far to improve the lives of Rubina and Azhar.
“How can the police barge in any time without giving us notice?” Qureshi asked, as she wept holding her forehead. Neighbors poured water over her to keep her cool as she sat in the scorching summer sun with Rubina.
Dozens of police with bamboo batons walked around the alley where Rubina’s house is located and supervised demolition crews of young men wielding sledgehammers and metal rods who tore down the shanty homes.
Slums destroyed because they are illegal or in the way of city development plans often resurface. Government promises of housing are not often met and when slum-dwellers are given homes, it is often in poor-quality buildings on the outskirts of cities, far from their jobs.
Temporary homes have already sprung up in the area where Azhar’s home had been. His family tied blankets and sheets of blue and yellow tarpaulin to a wooden frame to create a shelter.
Rubina and Azhar were discovered on the Mumbai streets by the filmmakers. The film’s adult stars, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, have since shot to international fame. But the lives of the two impoverished child stars _ who live in the slum called Garib Nagar, or the “city of the poor” _ haven’t changed much.
“I’m feeling bad,” Rubina told The Associated Press. “My house had been demolished. I’m thinking about where to sleep.”
“Slumdog” filmmakers say they’ve done their best to help the young stars. They set up a trust to ensure the children get proper homes, a decent education and a nest egg when they finish high school. They have also donated $747,500 to a charity to help slum kids in Mumbai.
Producer Christian Colson has described the trust as substantial, but won’t tell anyone how much it contains _ not even the children’s parents _ for fear of making the youngsters vulnerable to exploitation.
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