At a Catholic Orphanage in Vermont, Sex Abuse and Torture Ran Rampant

[NeoGreen]

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/30/at-a-catholic-orphanage-in-vermont-sex-abuse-and-torture-ran-rampant/

At a Catholic Orphanage in Vermont, Sex Abuse and Torture Ran Rampant
An investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News says she uncovered rampant abuse, including allegations of torture and murder, at a now-defunct Catholic orphanage in Vermont. She also claims the abuse was widespread in similar facilities across the entire United States.

The in-depth report comes from Christine Kenneally describes a horrific situation at St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont, including anecdotes involving nuns physically abusing kids and — in one case — ordering older boys to “rape” a younger boy named Joseph.

At a reunion for “survivors” of St. Joseph’s, several former residents shared their stories. Among the victims were Sally Dale, who reportedly went into the orphanage at age two and didn’t leave for another 20 years, and a man by the name of Joseph Barquin.

It had been a dark and terrifying place run by an order of nuns called the Sisters of Providence. Barquin recalled a girl who was thrown down stairs, and he remembered the thin lines of blood that trickled out of her nose and ear afterward. He saw a little boy shaken into uncomprehending shock. He saw other children beaten over and over.

A nun at St. Joseph’s had dragged Barquin into an anteroom under the stairs and forcefully fondled him, and then she cut him with something very sharp. He didn’t know what it was; he just remembered that there was blood everywhere.
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Sally remembered him saying that a nun told a group of older boys to rape him.
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Then one woman spoke about how nuns wiped her face in her own vomit, and Sally started to remember that the same thing had happened to her. She could hear the voice of one sister telling her, after she threw up her food, You will not be this stubborn! You will sit and you will eat it.

Sally, who tried to sue the church that owned the facility in the 1990s but didn’t get very far, was just the beginning. In addition to the stories of several former victims at the orphanage, Kenneally says she’s heard similar ones throughout the U.S.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs

[MineralMan]

1. Horrifying. And I know there are many other, similar stories

that have not yet been told. Some will never be told. And worse, such things are still going on, no doubt. It is the nature of the thing.

Soon, someone will be along to say, "But what about secular orphanages. They probably did the same thing."

[Voltaire2]

2. Is anyone even remotely surprised?

The RCC is a criminal organization.

[2naSalit]

3. It's a long read but

very telling, and reveals that there are/were many more of these. I grew up in that region and one of the threats made to naughty children was being left at one of these places or in "reform school" run by the state which probably dumped you in one of these joints. Either way, we were aware that evil shit happened there and you would be treated in an inhumane fashion because nobody would be around to care about you because you were bad. I heard about this place and others when I was a child, it was terrifying to think that there was a place where the abuse was worse than what I was already living... made me walk on eggshells for years for fear of being dumped off in one of those places.

[DonCoquixote]

4. and this is why when betsy devos

tries to make the church the main source of scoial outreach and education we stop her. The clergy attracts many people whoa re frankly EVIL.