I was only six-years-old when I had to appear before the court

“I was only six-years-old when I had to appear before the court and was taken from my parents for not attending school regularly. I spent twenty years of my life detained in some of the most horrendous industrial and reform schools in this state. I was regularly raped, abused and neglected in the name of God. I wasn’t the only one, there are another 150,000 silent victims of the church system in Ireland alone, who, to this day, wake up in cold sweat every night… I’m not against religion! I’m against unpunished crimes.”