Abuse at the Brothers of Charity service

Children as young as eight with physical and mental disabilities suffered a litany of physical and sexual abuse at the Brothers of Charity service in Galway city.The former pupils and residents were victims of abuse at the hands of the very people who were trusted to care for them.The 200 page report into an inquiry into these allegations at the Brothers of Charity services was published by the HSE on Tuesday.The report, which has taken almost nine years to complete, outlines the systematic physical and sexual abuse of children aged between 8 and 15 at the Brothers’ residential unit in Woodlands and the Holy Family School in Renmore over a 33 year period.The abuse came……