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Haunting Photos of the Sites of Child Abuse
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Time Magazine
Posted: December 7th, 2014
https://time.com/3608071/see-haunting-photos-of-the-sites-of...
In a damning 2009 report, Irelands independently-run Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse which spent nine years investigating thousands of allegations of abuse at religious-run institutions spoke of a culture of endemic sexual abuse in the countrys Catholic boys schools and of the deferential and submissive attitude of the Irish state towards the religious orders who ran them. What emerged from the investigation, and from a separate Dublin-specific inquiry concluded the same year, was that institutional child abuse was widespread and that it had occurred not only in schools, but in many places where young people were in the care of religious orders. The commissions also revealed that very often when children reported the abuse, they were largely ignored and even punished. The state, too, had willfully turned a blind eye. The very ordinariness of [the abuse] struck photographer Kim Haughton as profoundly disturbing. This was molestation that was at once hidden and woven into the fabric of everyday life. So much of this happened in places like schools and churches, and in homes, she tells TIME. And so she embarked on In Plain Sight, a project in which the [actual] sites of these abuses became the subjects of her lens ... places that, when taken at face value, seem unremarkable. The work, I hope, challenges us to confront these crimes in the context in which they happened, Haughton adds, everyday life.
Note: Read the complete story to see photos from In Plain Sight. Explore powerful evidence from a suppressed Discovery Channel documentary showing that child sexual abuse scandals also reach to the highest levels of government in the US. And read an abundance of major media news articles showing rampant child sexual abuse at high levels in many prominent organizations.
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