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Thu 05 May 2009Agencies of State colluded in reign of terror
ANALYSIS:The State agencies so feared religious orders that they utterly failed to protect children, writes PATSY McGARRY.
IT TAKES an extraordinary perversity of nature to thwart the instinctive drive to nurture and care for the young. What the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Reportdoes is document such a systematic perversity of nature. That it does so with such clarity and honesty is to the credit of Justice Seán Ryan and his fellow commissioners.
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