
Breaking the Silence
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Assigned to a quiet corner of Ireland's most remote county, Martin Ridge was heading for retirement after a long career with An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. All that changed when a call from a local priest set in motion what would become the most horrific sex abuse investigation the island had ever known.
At Christmas 1997 a local priest Fr Eugene Greene reported to the Gardaí that a man had tried to blackmail him. This call, an act of hubris, set in motion a Garda investigation that revealed him to be a serial abuser of children. As word of the investigation spread, 26 men came forward. Most were from the tiny Irish-speaking parish of Gort an Choirce. All had been abused by Greene as children.
Soon after, another man came forward to say that he had been sexually abused by a local schoolteacher, Denis McGinley. As Ridge dug deeper, he discovered that McGinley had been systematically abusing children in his classroom for decades. He had at least 50 victims.
The Greene and McGinley cases both involved the Catholic Church. Greene was a priest, and McGinley a teacher in a Catholic school answerable to religious managers. As Ridge investigated, he discovered that the Church knew about the abuse, but ignored the problem.
Brilliantly written and unsparing in its fidelity to the truth, Breaking the Silence is more than an account of a police investigation: it's the story of an entire community's struggle to come to terms with its betrayal by those in whom it placed the most trust.
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- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Preface
- To protect the identities
- Chapter 1: Blackmail
- Chapter 2: A Trusting Time
- Chapter 3: Where to Begin
- Chapter 4: Under the Blankets
- Chapter 5: Is it Money They're Looking For?
- Chapter 6: Up the Fire Escape
- Chapter 7: Grapevine
- Chapter 8: Weekend Visitor
- Chapter 9: I Wish I Could Have Died
- Chapter 10: What Am I to Do, Keep Moving Him Around?
- Chapter 11: A Sculpture in Pain
- Chapter 12: In the Shadows
- Chapter 13: Coffee and Rosary Beads
- Chapter 14: Nothing to Say
- Chapter 15: Evil in Our Midst
- Chapter 16: Getting the Full Story
- Chapter 17: Brothers
- Chapter 18: Part of Growing Up
- Chapter 19: No Written Record
- Chapter 20: He Will Never Make Much of Himself
- Chapter 21: Permission to Talk
- Chapter 22: Teacher's Pet
- Chapter 23: Teachers and Priests
- Chapter 24: I Could Do Nothing About It
- Chapter 25: The Health Services
- Chapter 26: A Strong Case
- Chapter 27: The Bureaucrat
- Chapter 28: Museum Pieces
- Chapter 29: Trip to Britain
- Chapter 30: The Damage Done to Those Lads is Terrible
- Chapter 31: Operation Alpha
- Chapter 32: I Was Expecting You
- Chapter 33: Guilty
- Chapter 34: Shane
- Chapter 35: Would You Investigate Your Own?
- Chapter 36: The Tip-Off
- Chapter 37: When is it Going to Court?
- Chapter 38: A Good Teacher
- Chapter 39: Sins of Omission
- Chapter 40: Cha n-ólann Denis bocht is cha gcaitheann sé
- Chapter 41: Moral Courage
- Chapter 42: Missed Chances
- Chapter 43: Cell System
- Chapter 44: The Swallow
- Chapter 45: The Day I Met a Miracle
- Self-help contacts
- Glossary of placenames
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About Gill & Macmillan
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