Talk:Industrial school
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Could someone add some info as to what these schools were? KrisW6 14:52, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
"The Irish industrial schools, which were funded by the state and operated by Catholic religious orders. Most of the inmates weren't orphans but rather kids (of both sexes) whose parents were too poor to care for them. They were beaten, starved, and dressed in rags; many were sexually abused. Reports of unexplained deaths and so on were dismissed by public officials. The industrial schools began to close in the late 1960s; in 1999, after several media exposйs, the Irish government apologized to the former inmates. Later the Catholic church agreed to pay 100 million pounds to sexual abuse victims. The best examination to date is "Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools" by Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan (1999).". Source: [| The Straight Dope]
