The Suppression of the Carrigan Report: A Historical Perspective on Child Abuse

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The Irish 20th century Crisis Committee of Ireland and children's sexual abuse has attracted a great deal of attention recently in the mass media mainly on physical abuse and sexual abuse of technical school children. However, there are few quantitative or qualitative analyzes about the first two-thirds of the child's sexual offense in the 20th century, and the extent to which the government knows or is discussing the problem. Modern critics talk about children's sexual abuse so that they are almost invisible, as if it had been discovered recently, as it did not exist before, or was wrapped in secrets Many

"Hidden agenda - Carrigan Council of the 20th century and child sexual abuse", New Hibernia Review, vol. 11th 2 (summer of 2007): 79 to 100

If Carrigan 's report or O'Duffy' s testimony is entered, will civil servants of the Ministry of Justice and men of Déil and Sean receive different treatments to cope with child sexual abuse? Open debate? The refusal to acknowledge the child abuse issue and the ignorance of this problem in the political or diary field guaranteed its invisibility. Father Brendan Smith