Crest of the Congregation of Christian Brothers

Crest of the Congregation of Christian Brothers
Neither Christian nor brotherly is how their victims see them

Millstones

This site focuses on allegations of abuse, physical and sexual, by the Irish Christian Brothers at schools in the UK. The majority of the Brothers were no doubt good teachers and kindly men, but a number of them should not have been allowed to be near children. Generally it appears that there was a culture of violence ingrained in the Congregation of Christian Brothers; it is unfortunate that so many teachers stood by and did nothing. As an ex-pupil has commented: " They could hardly claim to not know what went on; the sound of whole classrooms of kids being strapped could be heard very clearly in corridors and adjacent classrooms." If you would like to contribute and/or join the Millstones Facebook group email me mr.downes@gmail.com



Friday, 30 April 2010

A brother on the Brothers








My brother Justin, who attended Prior Park Preparatory School, in Cricklade, Wiltshire, a few years after me, was so outraged on reading the whitewashed obituary for Br B, that he submitted his own commentary on it to the St Joseph's College Association.

You can read it by clicking here http://www.stjosephsblackpool.com/obitdalycomment.htm

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