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Investigation into clerical sexual abuse in Northern Ireland to be launched

Major new inquiry will examine abuse cases in Catholic run institutions


Northern Ireland will shortly launch its own major inquiry into the clerical abuse of children
Northern Ireland will shortly launch its own major inquiry into the clerical abuse of children

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Northern Ireland will shortly launch its own major inquiry into the clerical abuse of children in institutions run by the Catholic Church it has been announced.

The Northern Ireland Executive confirmed that the probe will be armed with the power to compel the release of private records and the co-operation of witnesses.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson and acting deputy First Minister John O'Dowd announced the plan this week, which is expected to require special legislation to investigate historic cases of abuse.

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Robinson told The Irish Independent: 'This inquiry will be given the necessary statutory powers to compel people and documents. We will be taking forward legislation in the Assembly to confer statutory powers on the Inquiry and Investigation into Historical Institutional Child Abuse.

'It could take up to two years before the legislation is complete; however, this will not delay the Investigation and Inquiry's work.'


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ACCOUNTABILITY!**Article: In the Case Against Vatican Officials for Rape and Sexual Violence, We’ve come to the End of the Beginning**Source: Center for Constitutional Rights EXCERPT:“The ICC’s clearly-stated mandate begs the question: if it wasn’t the pope, but another leader of a global organization with the worldwide presence the church has who continually followed a policy of protecting the institution and running roughshod over child victims of brutal acts of rape and sexual violence, protecting their perpetrators from civil authorities, shifting them around, and leaving them in their positions knowing they would re-offend, failing to warn congregants and communities, thereby placing others at risk and knowingly enabling and essentially facilitating the commission of even more crimes-would there even be a question as to the need for accountability and law enforcement intervention?The idea that accountability in this context is “ludicrous,” a stunt, “won’t go anywhere,” “can’t be done” represents a most insidious and dangerous form of moral relativism — ironically a concept the Church is always quick to denounce but upon which it heavily relies to shield itself from any accountability whatsoever.Now, with the filing and tour behind us, we have reached the end of this particular chapter. But the work for accountability of high-level Vatican officials to bring an end to the system that condones, accepts, enables, and perpetuates sexual violence — a culture of sexual violence, if you will — is just beginning.”**In solidarity with the VICTIMS of Roman Catholic Clergy Abuse,JuneAnnette
The Clergy Abuse SCANDAL continues to unfold and pedophilia plague within the Roman Catholic “church” continues to rage. The intense scrutiny their monstrous crimes are receiving by the media, publicly subjecting them to the same humiliation, shame, reproach, and degradation in the eyes of the worldwide community which they themselves imposed upon their innumerable powerless and vulnerable victims whom they callously and mercilessly sexually raped and molested, in what they themselves reckon to be the “Worst Crime”, exacts a kind of poetic justice if nothing else. And while these criminals may well elude real justice here and now, it is certain they will one day be held accountable. They will not escape the Divine Justice that awaits them when they will be summoned to appear before the Highest and Heavenly Court that presides over all the lands. Title V of the Vatican directive/document called 'Crimens Sollicitationis' is subtitled: “The Worst Crime”***EXCERPT: Title V The Worst Crime 73. “To have the worst crime, for the penal effects, one must do the equivalent of the following: any obscene, external act, gravely sinful, perpetrated in any way by a cleric or attempted by him with youths of either sex or with brute animals (bestiality).”
“Justice delayed, is justice denied.”- William Gladstone / British politician (1809 - 1898)*******“If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.”***- God's Word as it is found in Eccl. 5:8*******May God be pleased to intervene and plead the cause of the VICTIMS! “It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.” - God's Word as it is found in Psalm 119:126
 




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