Ferryhouse: Ryan Report records a convicted Brother and dormitory access given to outsiders
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Institutional event
Evidence status
Official finding
Authority role
Rosminian Brothers and Fathers with custodial and pastoral authority over residents and care-leavers
Organization
St Joseph's Industrial School, Ferryhouse, Rosminians (Institute of Charity)
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The convicted Brother's victim was a care-leaver still under the order's pastoral authority at its aftercare centre — the industrial-school relationship carried forward. The dormitory findings show the same authority operating as gatekeeper: the religious staff controlled who reached the children at night.
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- Pastoral or clerical authority
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2009-05-20 · statutory inquiry finding recording a 2002 criminal conviction
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Ryan Commission), Ireland — statutory inquiry; Irish criminal courts. The Ryan Report recorded that a Brother it names 'Br Sergio' 'was convicted of sexual assault in 2002' for offences committed in the early 1990s against a former Ferryhouse resident at a Rosminian aftercare centre, and that on being confronted he 'admitted his guilt and was immediately removed'. The report separately found that 'Br Leone' and 'Fr Lucio' had permitted an outside layman access to boys' dormitories, and that 'Fr Paolo' told the Committee he was uneasy about what was going on but did not act.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- continuing religious authority over a care-leaver at an aftercare centre
- control of dormitory access
Cited record
Sources
- official statutory inquiry report inquiry report Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, 'Report' (Ryan Report), Vol. II, ch. 3 (Ferryhouse), paras 200–214 (20 May 2009).
The statutory inquiry records the 2002 conviction, the admission of guilt, and the dormitory-access findings.
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- https://industrialmemories.ucd.ie/ryan-report/report/2-3-213 Corpus classification: official-statutory-inquiry-report; evidentiary role: inquiry-report. SHA-256 b80c6c0902f15c5b9a54e7108be5514effba3c33dc77ddd949ecef674735da7f
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