Over the guts of a decade, the board conducted reviews into all 26 Catholic dioceses on the island of Ireland and also investigated all 138 religious congregations.
Why then has the flood of allegations about past abuse in Spiritan schools only emerged following a recent RTÉ radio documentary, featuring two brothers who were both sexually abused in Blackrock College? “The first audits that the national board introduced were resisted by many and we had to fight hard to get them accepted,” Mr Elliott said.
“If voluntary reviews were sufficient to tell the story completely, we would not be in the position we are in now. This is a story that needs to be told for several reasons, as well as bringing some closure to survivors,” he said. Tom Maher , a past pupil in Castleknock College, has alleged he was sexually abused by a priest at the fee-paying school in west Dublin during the 1970s.
The Dominican Order said it had received 97 complaints of alleged child sexual abuse, a large number of which related to Newbridge College, a boys boarding school it ran in Co Kildare. In some cases the abuse has been known about for decades, following criminal convictions in the courts. The priest had been moved between St Mary’s, Blackrock and Rockwell, until he was removed from ministry in 1996.
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