10-13-2020, 03:46 PM
Buzzfeed did an investigation that focuses on the abuse at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Burlington, Vermont.
People who grew up in orphanages said they:
Were made to kneel or stand for hours, sometimes with their arms straight out holding boots, books or other items;
Had to eat their own vomit;
Were dangled upside down out windows;
Were locked in cabinets, closets, attics, sometimes for days;
Had lit matches against their skin;
Were sexually abused;
Were Mutilated.
Sally Dale told that she once saw a boy thrown through the fourth-floor window at St. Joseph’s: “He kind of hit, and — And then he laid still”. A nun was looking down.
Sally told about the “swimming lessons”, where children “learned” to swim by throwing them in Lake Champlain from a rowboat. Once a little boy didn’t come up again. After Sally asked what happened to him, she was told: “Oh, don’t worry, the nun said. He’s gone home for good”.
A little girl was pushed down the stairs by a nun and was badly injured. When the girl didn’t return from hospital, the nuns explained to her: “The girl’s family had taken her home for good”.
Sally recalled that Sister James Mary beat her with a strap – too many times to count.
Sally said she was forced to go into the fire pit and her snow pants caught on fire. A couple of weeks later, the nuns pulled blackened skin off her arms and legs with tweezers. They told her this is because she was a “bad girl”.
Sally remembered that she was forced to eat her own vomit.
Sally also told of a little boy who was electrocuted, whom she had to kiss in his coffin.
Sally pointed out her scars in front of the camera:
Here was where Sister Blanche pressed the iron into her hand;
Her pinkie was broken after Sister Claire had kicked her legs out from under her on the ice;
Scars from slapping out the fire on her snow pants;
Her rib injury from where the nuns had pounded her with fists;
Her wrist had been broken,
Scars on the knuckles of both hands;
A fractured knee.
In the early 1950s, Joseph Barquin spent a few years at St. Joseph’s.
Barquin recalled a girl who was thrown down stairs, and remembered that blood trickled from her nose and ear afterward.
He saw a little boy shaken into shock.
He saw other children beaten.
A nun once took Barquin into an anteroom under the stairs and fondled him, and then she cut him with something very sharp. He remembered that there was blood everywhere.
Three women recalled that a girl was placed facedown over a desk and beaten with a piece of wood and after it broke with a paddle.
A child at St. Joseph’s was punched in the face.
Another child was held upside down out a window.
Multiple witnesses recalled a nun standing on a boy’s leg until it broke.
One child was tied to a bed with no mattress and beaten.
A nun held a child’s head underwater, while other nuns covered babies’ mouths until they turned blue.
Adams hung a boy from the ceiling and tied a string to his penis. As he pulled on the string, the boy swung back and forth and smacked repeatedly into a hot bulb that was hanging behind him. Adams said: “It’s just a learning”.
Marian Maynard told that Gilbert died after he was beaten by a nun.
Dale Greene told attorneys that a counsellor assaulted him in his bed in the boys dorm at St. Joseph’s probably 10 or 20 times.
16 male clergy members who had lived or worked at St. Joseph’s or Don Bosco — a boys home on the same grounds as St. Joseph’s — had been accused of sexual assault of minors. Another 5 laymen who had worked at the orphanage were accused or convicted of child sexual abuse.
In 1998, a federal judge ruled that the church didn’t have to turn over the letters on the abuse and that St. Joseph’s victims couldn’t prosecute them together in a consolidated trial. This effectively made their case impossible
Private settlements could be as little as a few thousand dollars. Government bodies have rarely pursued the allegations.
One plaintiff said in court that she was raped by a nun when she was 5, but because she couldn’t tell how far the nun had put her finger in her vagina this wasn’t taken serious.
Sally Dale’s case was dismissed because of the statute of limitations and lack of evidence.
In 1998, a UK government inquiry, cited “exceptional depravity” at 4 homes run by the Christian Brothers order in Australia. The inquiries focused primarily on sexual abuse, not physical abuse or murder, but the reports showed almost limitless harm that was the result of systemic abuse.
The brothers once held a competition on who could rape a boy 100 times.
In Canada 5,000 “Duplessis orphans” who had previously shown normal intelligence were diagnosed as “mentally handicapped”. These victims organised their protests collectively: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chr...st-josephs
People who grew up in orphanages said they:
Were made to kneel or stand for hours, sometimes with their arms straight out holding boots, books or other items;
Had to eat their own vomit;
Were dangled upside down out windows;
Were locked in cabinets, closets, attics, sometimes for days;
Had lit matches against their skin;
Were sexually abused;
Were Mutilated.
Sally Dale told that she once saw a boy thrown through the fourth-floor window at St. Joseph’s: “He kind of hit, and — And then he laid still”. A nun was looking down.
Sally told about the “swimming lessons”, where children “learned” to swim by throwing them in Lake Champlain from a rowboat. Once a little boy didn’t come up again. After Sally asked what happened to him, she was told: “Oh, don’t worry, the nun said. He’s gone home for good”.
A little girl was pushed down the stairs by a nun and was badly injured. When the girl didn’t return from hospital, the nuns explained to her: “The girl’s family had taken her home for good”.
Sally recalled that Sister James Mary beat her with a strap – too many times to count.
Sally said she was forced to go into the fire pit and her snow pants caught on fire. A couple of weeks later, the nuns pulled blackened skin off her arms and legs with tweezers. They told her this is because she was a “bad girl”.
Sally remembered that she was forced to eat her own vomit.
Sally also told of a little boy who was electrocuted, whom she had to kiss in his coffin.
Sally pointed out her scars in front of the camera:
Here was where Sister Blanche pressed the iron into her hand;
Her pinkie was broken after Sister Claire had kicked her legs out from under her on the ice;
Scars from slapping out the fire on her snow pants;
Her rib injury from where the nuns had pounded her with fists;
Her wrist had been broken,
Scars on the knuckles of both hands;
A fractured knee.
In the early 1950s, Joseph Barquin spent a few years at St. Joseph’s.
Barquin recalled a girl who was thrown down stairs, and remembered that blood trickled from her nose and ear afterward.
He saw a little boy shaken into shock.
He saw other children beaten.
A nun once took Barquin into an anteroom under the stairs and fondled him, and then she cut him with something very sharp. He remembered that there was blood everywhere.
Three women recalled that a girl was placed facedown over a desk and beaten with a piece of wood and after it broke with a paddle.
A child at St. Joseph’s was punched in the face.
Another child was held upside down out a window.
Multiple witnesses recalled a nun standing on a boy’s leg until it broke.
One child was tied to a bed with no mattress and beaten.
A nun held a child’s head underwater, while other nuns covered babies’ mouths until they turned blue.
Adams hung a boy from the ceiling and tied a string to his penis. As he pulled on the string, the boy swung back and forth and smacked repeatedly into a hot bulb that was hanging behind him. Adams said: “It’s just a learning”.
Marian Maynard told that Gilbert died after he was beaten by a nun.
Dale Greene told attorneys that a counsellor assaulted him in his bed in the boys dorm at St. Joseph’s probably 10 or 20 times.
16 male clergy members who had lived or worked at St. Joseph’s or Don Bosco — a boys home on the same grounds as St. Joseph’s — had been accused of sexual assault of minors. Another 5 laymen who had worked at the orphanage were accused or convicted of child sexual abuse.
In 1998, a federal judge ruled that the church didn’t have to turn over the letters on the abuse and that St. Joseph’s victims couldn’t prosecute them together in a consolidated trial. This effectively made their case impossible
Private settlements could be as little as a few thousand dollars. Government bodies have rarely pursued the allegations.
One plaintiff said in court that she was raped by a nun when she was 5, but because she couldn’t tell how far the nun had put her finger in her vagina this wasn’t taken serious.
Sally Dale’s case was dismissed because of the statute of limitations and lack of evidence.
In 1998, a UK government inquiry, cited “exceptional depravity” at 4 homes run by the Christian Brothers order in Australia. The inquiries focused primarily on sexual abuse, not physical abuse or murder, but the reports showed almost limitless harm that was the result of systemic abuse.
The brothers once held a competition on who could rape a boy 100 times.
In Canada 5,000 “Duplessis orphans” who had previously shown normal intelligence were diagnosed as “mentally handicapped”. These victims organised their protests collectively: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chr...st-josephs
The Order of the Garter rules the world: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5549#p5549