Karen Coleman's Haunting Cries. Stories of Child Abuse from Irish Industrial PDF

By Karen Coleman

ISBN-10: 0717151441

ISBN-13: 9780717151448

'I listen humans say now, "Oh, this is often an old thing." it isn't historic for me. i will succeed in out my hand and contact it.'
Survivor of kid abuse at Daingean reformatory

In their very own phrases, survivors of institutional abuse define how they suffered years of mistreatment whereas incarcerated in commercial colleges all through Ireland.
Their stories replicate what occurred to hundreds of thousands of kids who have been locked up in associations run via spiritual orders. Their tales additionally illustrate the ability of the human spirit and the intense survival instincts of these who persisted those schools.
Written by way of Karen Coleman, one in every of Ireland's most interesting broadcasters and newshounds, this significant e-book highlights the entire scale of the actual, emotional and sexual abuse that came about in Irish non secular associations.
Haunting Cries brings this tragic story of systemic abuse updated to incorporate the booklet of, and fall-out from, the Ryan...

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When he had finished fondling the traumatised youngster, Br Marc gave him sweets and a bun. Noel stumbled out of the bakery in shock. I think my mind just blanked out. I couldn’t say anything. ’ He wasn’t that big. I’ve seen that man so many times in my mind. I was frightened. The abuse got progressively more violent after that day. The fondling went on for a while and all that kissing and biting. I would have to pinch him in the nipples and all of that. He was into the pain kind of thing. At the time, I didn’t know that.

On another occasion, while in Mountjoy prison, he set fire to himself in his cell and suffered serious burns. He had to spend over 10 weeks in hospital as a result. I was drinking raw bottles of brandy. I tried to see how long it would take me to have a heart attack. [I was] staying in an old scruffy flat falling down on top of me. I’m lucky to be here today I’ve tried so many stupid things in my time. Some of them [victims of religious institutional abuse] live with it and cope with it. Some of them do it better than others.

Their anger was exacerbated by the gagging order they had to sign when accepting redress, which prevented them from revealing any details of their experiences of the redress process. They also had to sign a waiver to agree not to pursue any legal actions against any of the people or organisations they had named in their redress applications as being implicated in their childhood abuse. Haunting Cries follows a series of courageous works produced over the last 20 years that have exposed religious institutional abuse.

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