Survivors of Irish church child abuse speak out
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Uploaded by KarenColemanIE on May 26, 2009
Irishman Michael O'Brien spent 8 years in an Irish religious industrial school in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. He was put there after his mother died in 1942. The Irish state took Michael and his seven siblings away from their father and put them all into state institutions after declaring them destitute. They were all given criminal records because they were labelled as destitutes. Within days of arriving at Ferryhouse, Michael was raped by a brother belonging to the Rosminian orders. He endured eight years of ongoing rape, beatings, starvations and abuse at the Industrial school. He was forced to work as a child slave by the Rosminian fathers. In this video he tells Irish journalist Karen Coleman his story.
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whose dead his sister or his sisters child
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You cannot forgive someone who isn't sorry for what they have done, and they aren't. They are sorry they have been exposed. They also know they not going to hell, or to heaven as they aren't religious in real terms.
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forgivness is not for sale.
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fucking catholic scum. people go on about muslim suicide bombers blowing us up, but atleast they are attacking their enemy. they don't go around touching their own kids up, do they. Don't get me wrong, i think Islam is a load of shite as well. I think religion is outdated and is on the same level as believing that the world is flat. they are all fucking idiots. all of them.
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what happend to michael cause he was in st vincents
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@BrightLight57 would you forgive someone who raped you and your siblings and then told you to forgive them? I'm all for forgive and forget but there is a line, people need to be punished for their crimes if they are a horrid threat to society and young people.
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is his sister dead
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As bad as what happened...Forgiveness goes a long way.
In this life as well as the next...without a doubt...
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Wow, this is truly horrible. He deserves everything the law system can give him.
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Thank you for your courage Michael. These people need to be named and need to be shown for the criminals they are- they need to be kicked out of your country as it has been in the grip of this fucking church for far too long.
psychopam 2 years ago 15
Thank you, sir, for your courage and truth.
wainskote 2 years ago 10