# sex-abuse - Friday 26 April, 2013
Ireland was traditionally a nation ruled by the Catholic Church. Now that people are drifting away, it’s important to examine why, writes Brian Conway.
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# sex-abuse - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today…
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# sex-abuse - Saturday 6 April, 2013
The movement has called for change and more transparency in Ireland’s justice system.
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# sex-abuse - Sunday 24 March, 2013
“There’s this message that they come out with, that individuals must take responsibility for their own drinking – I just don’t buy that.”
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# sex-abuse - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
A review of allegations made against Jimmy Savile during his lifetime found mistakes were made by the police between 1964 and 2012.
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# sex-abuse - Friday 22 February, 2013
Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s latest documentary explores how the Catholic Church protected child sex abusers across the world. Here, he discusses how power corrupted the institution – and may still cause its total downfall.
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# sex-abuse - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Lawyers for 31 of the alleged victims of sexual abuse say they have taken the first steps in what could be a major legal action.
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# sex-abuse - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
The Vatican’s new chief prosecutor said many of the cases date back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
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# sex-abuse - Saturday 2 February, 2013
Cardinal Roger Mahony has been stripped of his administrative duties and court-ordered to release thousands of pages of confidential files on sexually abusive priests.
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# sex-abuse - Friday 1 February, 2013
Papers were lodged with the High Court late Wednesday.
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# sex-abuse - Monday 7 January, 2013
The 83-year-old former BBC presenter was charged in December after allegations were made to police.
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# sex-abuse - Monday 10 December, 2012
The man, who has not been identified, is the sixth person arrested as part of the Scotland Yard investigation into sexual abuse in the 1970s.
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# sex-abuse - Friday 7 December, 2012
A new study says the clergy has been accused of 576 cases of sexual assault between 2000 and 2010.
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The well-known publicist was arrested yesterday as part of the investigation into sex offence claims against Jimmy Savile and ‘others’.
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# sex-abuse - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford is being questioned by police in London on suspicion of sexual offences, according to reports.
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# sex-abuse - Monday 12 November, 2012
An internal investigation at the BBC has found “basic” journalistic failures in a news report which wrongly accused a senior politician of child abuse.
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# sex-abuse - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
Good morning. Here’s nine things to know before you start your day…
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# sex-abuse - Thursday 1 November, 2012
London Metropolitan Police arrested a man in his 60s earlier this evening on suspicion of sexual offences connected to the Savile investigation.
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# sex-abuse - Sunday 28 October, 2012
It’s a common refrain that widespread abuse was only exposed in recent decades – but the real story is very different, writes Fin Dwyer.
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# sex-abuse - Saturday 20 October, 2012
18-year-old Aaron Fisher, who was known publicly for a year only as Victim 1, put aside anonymity yesterday to speak about his ordeal as a child.
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# sex-abuse - Friday 19 October, 2012
The TV man has also been described as possibly “one of the most prolific sex offenders the NSPCC has ever come across.”
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# sex-abuse - Friday 12 October, 2012
There will now be at least three separate investigations into the allegations against the Jim’ll Fix It presenter.
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# sex-abuse - Thursday 11 October, 2012
The HSE’s Diocesan Audit Report of the safeguarding arrangements in the Catholic Diocese in Ireland was published this afternoon.
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# sex-abuse - Sunday 19 August, 2012
Families of Marc Dutroux’s victims staging protest over freeing of Michelle Martin.
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# sex-abuse - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
“An unprecedented failure of institutional integrity.”
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# sex-abuse - Tuesday 17 July, 2012
A 28-year-old woman was sentenced to 16-months for sexually assaulting and exploiting her four-year-old daughter.
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# sex-abuse - Monday 2 July, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI has become increasingly willing to forcibly remove bishops who refuse to step down.
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# sex-abuse - Saturday 23 June, 2012
Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of child abuse.
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# sex-abuse - Wednesday 20 June, 2012
84 per cent of perpetrators were known to the victims.
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# sex-abuse - Sunday 17 June, 2012
“They abused people and undermined the credibility of the Church’s message.”
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# sex-abuse - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
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The National Board for Safeguarding Children received 237 new abuse allegations in the year to 1 April, 2012, implicating 196 priests.
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# sex-abuse - Thursday 24 May, 2012
New figures show details of accusations against ten serial abusers in the diocese – one of whom had 97 allegations against him.
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# sex-abuse - Monday 21 May, 2012
An Oireachtas briefing paper outlines that Alan Shatter’s proposed legislation does not tackle ‘sacerdotal privilege’.
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# sex-abuse - Monday 7 May, 2012
Catholic Church leader apologises to abuse victims and says he regrets “very much” that parents of children at risk weren’t informed.
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# sex-abuse - Thursday 3 May, 2012
Fr Finian Egan, 77, was charged on Monday with 17 offences relating to alleged assaults on four children between 1972 and 1987.
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# sex-abuse - Wednesday 2 May, 2012
The primate of all-Ireland has released a statement in response to new allegations about his role in an inquiry into abuse allegations against the paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.
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