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Story Needs To Be Told So We Never Forget And Allow It To Happen Again by Annette DunleaThe child abuse in the orphanages of times past in the subject of a new report. The Full Irish Government Report is now online at http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/pdfs/. It is horrifying reading. It is the source of many books, articles and even movies.“The report, nine years in the making and covering a period of six decades, found thousands of boys and girls were terrorised by priests and nuns. Government inspectors failed to stop beatings, rapes and humiliation....The five-volume study concluded that church officials encouraged ritual beatings and consistently shielded their orders' paedophiles from arrest amid a "culture of self-serving secrecy". The commission found that sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' institutions, and church leaders knew what was going on. Victims of the abuse-- particularly those who had testified before the Commission --were particularly upset by the fact that the report will not be used as the basis for additional criminal prosecutions. In part this is because one of the largest religious orders involved-- Christian Brothers--obtained a court order in 2004 to keep all its members discussed in the report anonymous. Police were called to the news conference in which the report was released as victims who were prevented from attending began to object. BBC News has reactions of abuse victims, church leaders and political leaders.” (Http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2009/05/irelands-massive-report-on-clergy-sex.html)            One such book is: Freedom of Angels: Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage (Paperback)by Bernadette Fahy (Author) . It is published by O Brien Press and its ISBN 0862785952. Another is Time to Listen: Confronting Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Clergy in Ireland (Paperback) by Helen Goode (Author), Ciaran Boyle (Author) ·         Paperback: 330 pages ·         Publisher: The Liffey Press (Dec 2003) ·         Language English ·         ISBN-10: 1904148387 ·         ISBN-13: 978-1904148388   In the movie Evelyn institutional care is addressed. Children were put into care without parent’s permission is the source of a movie. It is called Evelyn (2003). It stars Pierce Brosnan and Julianna Margulies and directored by Bruce Beresford and Jerry Hogrewe. It was a time when church and state were not divorced and the hierarchy had control over everything.  Product Details·         Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, Alan Bates, Bruce Beresford ·         Directors: Bruce Beresford, Jerry Hogrewe ·         Writers: Paul Pender ·         Producers: Beau St. Clair, Cynthia A. Palormo, Eberhard Kayser, Jan Hogrewe, Kevan Barker ·         Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ·         Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) ·         Subtitles: English, Spanish, French