Original sentence: At the time when Scotus Academy was in operation, corporal punishment was acceptable.Even now they should be charged with child abuse, but everybody including former staff and pupils has turned a ‘blind eye’ to this practice, everybody new it went on but nobody talks about it.However, the majority of the “ Christian Brother “ teachers at the school  took corporal punishment to a higher level where the staff took great pleasure in inflicting as much pain as possible on young pupils.In fact a cricket stump was the weapon of choice of Brother Russell carried inside his cassock.It was always considered as being carried out by the “Christian Brothers” for the benefit of the pupils.Many a pupil went home with black and blue weals on their backsides and the tops of their legs and could hardly sit down for days.Nowadays, these teachers would spend time in prison, if convicted of this practice, and then have their names entered in a “child abuse register”.The excuse often given was that this was what parents paid for in sending their children to Scotus Academy, that the pupils benefitted from this treatment.Various instruments of punishment were used, from sticks to a cricket stump