Irish school victims angry that abusers not named

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK – 1 hour ago
DUBLIN (AP) — The thousands of victims of Ireland's child-abuse homes spent decades just trying to get the public to believe them — but even after a mammoth investigation proved the horrors of their youth, many say they are no nearer to real justice. A nine-year probe into child abuse by Ireland's Catholic religious orders painted a damning portrait Wednesday of a system that protected child-molesting church officials while consigning generations of Ireland's poorest children to misery from the 1930s to the 1990s. The victims, now mostly in their 50s to 80s, said for all its incredible detail, the 2,600-page report didn't make public what really matters — the names of their abusers. That's because a religious order at the heart of the abuse charges — the Christian Brothers — successfully sued the investigators to keep the identities of all their abusive members secret. "I do genuinely believe that it would have been a further step towards our healing if our abusers had been named and shamed," said Christine Buckley, 62, who spent her first 18 years in a Dublin orphanage run by Sisters of Mercy nuns.
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