When men and women believe they have authority from God they can become corrupted by power to a frightening extent. The Roman Catholic Priests, monks and nuns who ran Irish children’s homes from the 1930’s to the 1990’s are an example of this. Marked for blame were the “Christian Brothers” and the “Sisters of Mercy”. Neither order showed signs of brotherly love, sisterly love or any mercy. Some children were put into the sadistic care of those orders because they were considered delinquent but others simply were not properly looked after. Then the religious orders continued to look after the children badly. It is estimated that there were 30,000-40,000 victims.