Artane: Ryan Report finds Brothers who admitted abusing boys were retained and transferred
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Institutional event
Evidence status
Official finding
Authority role
Christian Brothers holding total custodial and spiritual authority over committed boys, Congregation leadership that retained admitted abusers
Organization
St Joseph's Industrial School, Artane, Congregation of Christian Brothers
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Boys were committed to Artane by court order into the total custodial and spiritual authority of the Christian Brothers; that religious authority is what made the abuse unrefusable, and the Congregation's own authority structure is what moved admitted abusers between institutions instead of out of them.
- Institutional obedience or isolation
- Pastoral or clerical authority
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2009-05-20 · statutory inquiry finding
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Ryan Commission), Ireland — statutory inquiry. The Ryan Report found that a Brother it names 'Br Herve' was 'accused of having kissed, fondled, embraced and meddled with boys in his class' and 'admitted that the charges were substantially true', yet was subsequently transferred to Artane rather than removed from ministry to children. A second Brother, 'Br Platt', 'voluntarily confessed to the Superior that he had abused a boy and acted immodestly with him' and was likewise retained. Artane, the largest industrial school in the state, held boys committed by court order from 1870 to 1969.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- court committal into the Congregation's custody
- transfer of known abusers between institutions rather than removal
Cited record
Sources
- official statutory inquiry report inquiry report Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, 'Report' (Ryan Report), Vol. I, ch. 7 (Artane), paras 312–339 (20 May 2009).
The statutory inquiry records the admitted abuse, the confessions to superiors, and the retention and transfer of the Brothers concerned.
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- https://industrialmemories.ucd.ie/ryan-report/report/1-7-320 Corpus classification: official-statutory-inquiry-report; evidentiary role: inquiry-report. SHA-256 8e7d8dcb59514e30a30e8b452dfd71324efe38cce013f04e45f64fb3afad08b4
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