THE CRUELTY MAN STANISLAUS KENNEDY ISPCC
May 20, 2009
For decades the ISPCC was involved in the wholesale abuse of children in Ireland. The Cruelty Man was the ISPCC man who decided who would and would not end up in care. He did it for money. He was paid to do it. He’s still doing it today. The ISPCC , The Irish Christian Brothers , the Catholic Church , the Sisters of Charity and the state were all involved in this. Stanislaus Kennedy was also involved. Kennedy not only is not now in jail but has been elevated to the position of Member of the Council of State. In fact no one of any significance has been sent to jail.
The report on abuse in Ireland just published is a sham. It does not name those who are guilty. Not only does the report not mention the names of the guilty but it was in fact edited (censored) by those same guilty people. Victims of this church/state abuse were today locked out of the press conference called to launch the report. The Catholic Church still control the national school system in Ireland. They control much of the services for the homeless and vulnerable in Ireland. None of the abuse was carried on against children. The abuse was carried on against poor children. The church treated the children of the rich and the middle class in quite a different manner.
Anyone who claims that the ISPCC today is a different organisation is missing the point. The ISPCC , the Sisters of Charity , Stanislaus Kennedy , Christian Brothers etc etc would all like to move on …….what they don’t want is for one of their own to go to jail. And none of these people will in fact go to jail. To date not one single person in a senior position in any of these organisations has gone to jail. The report is as I’ve said a sham. We knew all these things before the report. We’ve known all about the business of abuse for years. The ‘dogs in the street’ and all that……
The media has played a large part in all of this. For decades they refused to report the facts. They continue to this day to refuse to report the facts. For years victims of abuse have accused Stanisluas Kennedy and others of being involved but anyone who tries to say this on air is soon shut up. On the other hand a bishop who quite openly perverts the course of justice is treated like an honored and indeed honorable guest on every other talk show. We are told that it’s all quite different now and that there are laws to protect children. But as I have already stated children are not and never have been at risk. It’s poor children who need protection. Give every poor person , child or adult the service of a good barrister and just about all social ills would vanish overnight. It’s as simple as that. It always has been just as simple as that. The ONLY reason that children in care were abused is because they (and their parents) had no power or were perceived as having no power…..Lets be brutally honest here. The rich are not called the beautiful people for nothing and the same applies to their children. A good diet , a healthy self image etc etc can have a dramatic effect on the physical appearance of a person….the beautiful people do indeed often have beautiful children but they don’t get abused by Christian Brothers……..
It’s all about money and power and the poor had neither. That’s what it’s all about. That , and nothing else. It was the poor who today were refused entry to the press conference. It was the poor who were abused. European Human Rights law does not protect the poor. In spite of the obvious fact that the poor are the single biggest minority group in any society there is no provision in law to protect them against discrimination. Discrimination against the poor is historically the oldest and most common form of discrimination. Poor children were abused. Not just in their hundreds but in their thousands. It was the poor and not the middle class who suffered. Children in private catholic schools were not abused. Nuns , Christian Brothers and such people made a deliberate conscious choice to give the middle class or wealthy child the best education possible but they had something else in mind for the child that was poor. They knew what they were doing. They knew only too well. 8 or 10 years in the hands of such people and most girls were fit only for the laundry or the streets and that’s where most ended up. Talk to any young girl selling her body on the streets of Dublin and there is a good chance her mother or grand mother was in the ‘care’ of these people.
At a fundamental level this report changes nothing. The ISPCC refused to hand over information requested by the inquiry. The ISPCC have shown the same contempt for the victims as the Christian Brothers have. They are complicit in the abuse. But they will not go to jail for trying to frustrate the justice system. No , nothing has changed. The abusers are still running the show.
May 21, 2009 at 11:24 am
http://www.privacyforsale.com
May 24, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Interesting. thanks for the insights. I will add this to my favourites and come back to check out your updates. very cool
June 5, 2009 at 7:15 am
I can’t find any reference to the Ryan Report on the ISPCC website.
But in their Press Release on the Ryan Report they support the Christian Brothers line that we were children of ‘ne’er do-wells’. How would the ISPCC know of the childrens circumstances when the files relating their crucial role in the enslavement of children are missing – lost in a fire in Dublin, accidentally of course!
I remember meeting the ISPCC in 1998 and they denied they had anything to do with my incarceration or my brother’s incarceration, even on production of my Detention Order (as a 5 year old) naming an official of the ISPCC as the plaintiff they continued to deny culpability saying that because the files from Kilkenny were accidentally burned in Dublin so they couldn’t confirm anything.
The ISPCC must be decommissioned along with their Brothers & Sisters in abuse.
June 5, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Thank you for your comment Andrew..but don’t hold your breath if it’s justice you are looking for..
June 5, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Justice was never on the cards for us.
The ISPPCs reaction to the Ryan Report is insulting. Obviously they haven’t bothered to read it: The ISPCC said:> “We sincerely regret if any of these children were harmed”, but the report states that there is no ‘if’ about children being harmed in the Institutions. They go on to say: “We hope this report – and fact that so many were shocked at its contents – will bring about changes….” So many WERE shocked but not the ISPCC because they never bothered to read it.
A minor matter: I was at the launch of the Report. I wasn’t barred. And there were several other fellows ‘formerly from the Institutions’ with me as well. I did witness the ‘lockout’ though.
June 16, 2009 at 9:03 am
Andrew makes a point of the Poor Law as to unmarried mothers and those of perhaps manual labourers who were in the peasant class. But I would think ……. the quoted ….Press Release on the Ryan Report they support the Christian Brothers line that we were children of ‘ne’er do-wells’… pertains to what is the divide of the road in Foucauldian and Bakhtinian traditions as to voices of struggle.
Clearly discourse analysis in the Foucauldian tradition mirrors such genealogies as to those who have Church posts and are invasive in clubs and affiliations and who monitor and invade the poor who they use and used as none identities or the ‘other’ as social misfits, hence socially downward peasant farmers, widows, and unmarried mothers, fathers and families with disabled poor children were the ‘bad’ subjects.
To confirm this I give you an example. In Flixton in 1953 I was a six year old child. Small, frail and having a father of Irish family who served and was wounded most dreadfully we were marginalised. Employment was in factories with his wounded mind and hands as he was the hero with medals, but they did not matter. He was poor you see. He could not make his ‘voice’ heard unlike some of todays victims who teach the ignorant of such extremes of courage over their plight.
On a bright sunny Whitsun as a small frail child I gave in my homework – late the nun said and the female teacher. I was six.
The teacher in front of the class and the nuns whipped my legs so bad and I had to stand. My pale fevered legs bled. I ran home and mother took me out of school to a Protestant one which started a regime of fear of education as castrating to the mind and the soul. Later I found in my forties the Open University and later acceptance as to distance learning hiding the identity of such damaged learners who fear the sharp sting of critised dogma, and fear more than the stings of the hard hearted bitches the fear of rejection and of shame.
Six years old and one shoe up and one shoe down is still that child many therapists have taught me to go back to in regression to hold and to love.
I have her image here and her name, for she is me, and those Merciful and merciless sisters of the Church when I was six did not take my soul, only in childhood did they destroy dreams, hopes and aspirations as a ‘bad’ child. A good child had a father who did not become injured or work in the vast chemical loaded industrial furnaces.
Now I live in a former good childs house as a former Mill owner and landowner and look down on the land from above, but with respect as I climbed here with true grit and integrity, no thanks to those bad nuns and their assistants who whipped the legs of poor children with their bare hands and tempers.
June 16, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Must be something about six-year-olds that the nuns don’t like – I had my hands placed in a furnace by a nun when I was six – 1958/59! My father was on the Dieppe raid prior to the D-Day landings and returned to Ireland after liberation to a stultifying country – no different than the one he left to fight the Nazis.
He was a miner as were his family for generations, yet even the close-knit communities, that are the hallmark of mining communities, couldn’t overcome the rabid and pious interferences of the religious that was Ireland since 1922.
I remember in 1972 or 1973 relating some of my experiences in the institutions to man, and a TD, who had fought the British Empire to a standstill in Ireland’s War of Independence and his reply was that he wasn’t up to start a fight with the Christian Brothers! They named a Military Barracks after him in Ireland – he was an honourable man, as far as that goes, and did do what he could for me personally and as a serving soldier at the time but I can’t forget that the might of the British Military Machine was no problem to him yet taking on a Religious Order that he knew was, at the very least, brutalising children was out of the question for him!