Now politicians are taking advantage of abuse victims Industrial school system will be blot on Irish history forever – it will take time to fathom it
Off the hook
On 2009-05-30,
in Personal Stories/Opinions,
by Paddy
Off the hook
Saturday, May 30, 2009
IT was the NSPCC and the ISPCC that had us taken to court, charged and sentenced, for a bounty.
This has left us with a criminal conviction. Did they check these places out? No.
They have not paid a penny and they apologised only a few days ago. Why are they being left of the hook when they kept on having children sent to these institutions?
Kathy Ferguson
Jacox Crescent
Kenilworth
England CV8 2NJ
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Children were scooped up on orders from the Religious when the capitation grant was running low. There is no doubt that some children had to be removed due to a lack of parental responsibility (mine and that of my two brothers) and for their own safety. However, how this organisation dealt with the records of its detentions is a crying shame and one that won’t be forgotten and we won’t let it be forgotten. History will remember and if we don’t learn from the errors of the past we are doomed to repeat them!