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Victim John Kelly speaks out about organized crime by the Catholic Church in Ireland
Victim John Kelly speaks out about organized crime by the Catholic Church in Ireland from 666ExposesTheVatican on Vimeo.
A survivor of one of Ireland's former state-funded, Roman Catholic Church-run children's institutions says some of them were like gulags, where vulnerable minors worked as slave labourers.
"These places weren't care homes, they were gulags," John Kelly, now coordinator of the Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) group said, adding that inmates had to make "the instruments of our own torture".
Speaking hours before publication of a major report into alleged abuse, he said children were "rented out to farmers as slave labourers," faced regular floggings and were known by numbers, not names.
For 10 years, a government-appointed commission has probed allegations of sexual, physical and emotional abuse suffered by thousands of the estimated 30,000-40,000 children who passed through the system.
Kelly described how he lived in an institution run by a Catholic religious order in a former British military barracks in central Ireland.
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Comment by jack colleton on January 17, 2012 at 23:18
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it's good to hear people talking the same language having shared the same story!
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state and church child abuse. hand in glove.
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the church funds the government (of the day)?
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the abuse still goes on!
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Pope’s brother: I slapped pupils in the face
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