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DUBLIN — The Irish government announced Wed nesday that it expects Catholic religious orders responsible for decades of child abuse to report by mid-July on their cash and assets — the next step in making them pay more to thousands of victims.
Prime Minister Brian Cowen and his senior Cabinet deputies met leaders of 18 orders that concealed chronic physical, sexual and psychological abuse in boarding schools, reformatories and orphanages from the 1930s to the 1990s.
The orders of nuns and brothers long had denied the extent of harm caused to children in their care but were found guilty by a decade-long investigation that published results last month.
