“The Irish report suffers from conflating minor instances of abuse with serious ones, thus demeaning the latter.”

A significant part of what is now Politically Correct “abuse” was common and considered normal in the decades prior to the 1970’s. That is a historical fact that anyone over the age of 50 can tell you about.

‘When most people hear of the term abuse, they do not think about being slapped, being chilly, being ignored or, for that matter, having someone stare at you in the shower. They think about rape.”

Donohue is correct on this point.

So out of the thousands of cases of “abuse” in the report, how many were actually serious crimes and how many were stern disciplinary measures?