why did president mcaleese not speak out.

Sceala Clann Counsellor Location: NZ

i felt very sick reading the news reports of the child abuse commission report.
i was very shocked at the extent of the abuse going on. appalled at the evil crimes against innocent children.
yes , we are told that power corrupts. that good and bad people exist every where , in every walk of life.
the reports findings are much more than any reasonable suspicion of human frailty , much worse. the findings are of the darkest fears , we dare not imagine.
i have spoken to family and friends back home living in ireland. all of them were shocked and made sick by the report ,the scale of the abuse of children.

i was very alarmed to read that president mcaleese was not shocked by the findings.
if this was a true report of what president mcaleese said ,then she has lost all respect from me. i think it disgracefull that she waited until now ,to speak publicly about her long held suspicions of child abuse.

this is the article that quotes president mcaleese.

irish president says abuse report didn't come as shock
dublin (reuters) - ireland's president said on thursday a harrowing report into how catholic priests and nuns had abused children had not come as a shock after her own convent school experiences.
"i had a fair idea it was happening," mary mcaleese said in an interview with state broadcaster rte.
"i was educated by mercy nuns, my brothers went to christian brothers schools. some of the stories that come through the ryan report would not be unfamiliar to us."
revelations of floggings, slave labor and rape in ireland's now defunct system of industrial and reform schools have shamed irish people, particularly older generations who did not confront the widespread abuse.
the report, chaired by high court justice sean ryan, criticized the department of education for colluding in the silence surrounding the abuse and noted children were also preyed upon by foster parents, volunteer workers and employers.
"i had always known that culture, that ethic, that domineering authoritarianism, allied unfortunately to a culture of corporal punishment and a culture of abusive corporal punishment," said mcaleese.
"it was pretty much a landscape of our childhood." mcaleese was born and educated in the north of Ireland which was not covered by the report.
the archbishop of dublin, diarmuid martin, said this week that information about the abuse had been around for decades.
mcaleese, a former professor of law, said abusers should be prosecuted as a result of the report.
"in so far as there are people still alive who are responsible for these criminal acts then surely part and parcel of what comes out of the ryan report is and should be that they are brought before the proper authorities."
the inquiry did not name abusers after a successful legal challenge by the christian brothers, which had been the largest provider of residential care for boys in ireland.
a spate of scandals involving sex predator priests has dislodged the catholic church from its once pre-eminent position in irish society but there is anger that many have avoided jail.
religious orders named in the report have come under pressure to pay more compensation to victims. a 2002 deal capped their contribution to a redress fund at 127 million euros ($177 million). the total bill is expected to top 1 billion euros.
in the united states, the roman catholic archdiocese of los angeles agreed to pay $660 million to 500 victims in the largest compensation of its kind.
(reporting by carmel crimmins; editing by robert woodward)

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