Victims of abuse by nuns speak out

Victims of sexual abuse by nuns and their supporters will protest outside the national convention of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in Dallas today.
The group, affiliated with the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), has asked to speak at LCWR's annual convention for seven years. LCWR has denied the request, saying that is not the proper venue. 

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/victims-abuse-nuns-speak-out 

Man Says He Was Abused By Nun

VIENNA — A man says he was abused by a nun while a child – the first such accusation amid widening allegations of sexual misdeeds leveled against Austria's Roman Catholic church.
Salzburg church officials revealing the allegations Friday did not name the alleged victim. They said the man complained to them of being abused by a nun, a priest and several monks between 1965 and 1972.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/man-says-he-was-abused-by_n_496563.html 

Children sexually abused by Dutch nuns

AMSTERDAM – Nuns have been guilty of sexual abuse of children as well. Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad writes this on Thursday on its website.
That many priests have in the past sexually abused children has become known in recent months. Now, however, it turns out that religious women are not without sins as well.

http://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/children-sexually-abused-by-dutch-nuns-2/ 

Victims of Nun's Sex Abuse Need Our Compassion, Too

Imagine the reaction of the thousands of men and women sexually abused by American nuns to the continuous media coverage lauding their tormenters and torturers as the ultimate practitioners of virtue. In response to the multitude of commentaries championing religious women against the Vatican, I agree with Kris Ward of the National Survivors Advocates Coalition (NSAC) who wrote:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/06/1097871/-Victims-of-Nun-s-Sex-Abuse-Need-Our-Compassion-Too#

Abused by nun, native woman tells commission

P.E.I. survivors of Indian residential schools had an opportunity Tuesday to testify about their horrific treatment at the hands of the federal government and the church.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission held an all-day hearing at the Rodd Charlottetown Hotel. The commission gives people an opportunity to speak openly, or privately, about the residential school system that existed in Canada for more than 100 years.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/abused-nun-native-woman-tells-commission-095006599.html 

Victim, experts tell of abuse by nuns

Myra Hidalgo was 12 when she met Sr. Cheryl Porte, a young, charming nun who was her teacher at Opelousas Catholic Middle School in Southwest Louisiana.
Porte, a member of the Marianites of the Holy Cross, taught her about “theology, the Beatles, Carl Jung and social justice,” said Hidalgo.
And, after earning her trust, Porte taught her about sex -- coaxing the 12-year-old into a sexual relationship that lasted more than two years.


http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives/110102/110102h.htm 

Oakdale Woman Warns of Sexual Abuse by Nuns

At first, Mary Dunford's story sounds all too familiar: a life shattered by pain and confusion after being sexually abused by a trusted church figure decades ago.
But Dunford, 63, of Oakdale says it was a nun, not a priest, who abused her while she attended a Roman Catholic boarding school as a teen-ager. Years after she brought the abuse to the attention of the order that ran the school, she is clear about her agenda.


http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news5/2002_07_15_Linsk_OakdaleWoman.htm 

For He Has Sinned and the nuns knew about it

Two decades ago, an 11-year-old boy from the Bay Area was honored with an invitation most devout Catholics would envy. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her work among the developing world's poor, was celebrating Mass at her order's convent in Noe Valley. The ceremony was part of a retreat led by one of the famed humanitarian nun's close spiritual advisers, a Jesuit priest and former University of San Francisco professor named Donald McGuire.
It was at McGuire's bidding that the 11-year-old came to serve as an altar boy that morning at St. Paul's Convent, a boxy building of yellow stucco that rises from a tree-lined block near the intersection of 29th and Church streets. (The convent houses local novices in the international Missionaries of Charity order, founded by Mother Teresa in 1950.) The priest was close to the boy's family: He had baptized the boy, and offered his mother spiritual and psychological counseling over the years. Indeed, within church circles, McGuire was something of a celebrity himself.

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/for-he-has-sinned/Content?oid=2173556&showFullText=true 

Residential schools timeline

A timeline of key events of the last few years in Canada’s residential schools tragedy.

Timeline

2005: The agreement-in-principle is signed between the federal government, survivors and church organizations.

Sept. 19, 2007: The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement is formally signed and enacted. The agreement will lead to the creation of two separate bodies: the Independent Assessment Process, responsible for administering claims, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/08/28/residential_schools_timeline.html 

American ultra-orthodox charge sexual abuse at Israeli seminaries

The head of a chain of religious seminaries in Israel, accused of engaging in sexual abuse and fraud, is now the target of a class-action suit by members of the American ultra-Orthodox community in a Chicago court.
Rabbi Elimelech Meisels, the operator of four seminaries for post-high school girls, stands accused of having “engaged in a fraudulent and unlawful scheme to induce Orthodox Jewish parents from across the United States to send their daughters to various seminaries in Israel that he controlled under the guise of educational and spiritual development” for the purposes of “sexually assaulting these vulnerable young girls” since 2004, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Failed Messiah blog.

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/American-ultra-orthodox-charge-sexual-abuse-at-Israeli-seminaries-372678 

Shining a Light on Child Sexual Abuse

The publication of a report into child sexual abuse in Rotherham is harrowing reading, both in the scale of the horrendous abuse and the appalling errors and cover-up by senior staff, local politicians and the police.
Even more depressing is the fact that none of this comes as a complete surprise. Similar failings were highlighted in previous reports, such as Rochdale, and we will undoubtedly see more reports like these in the future. Young people have been let down by the system for far too long.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nick-lowles/shining-a-light-on-child-sexual-abuse_b_5722214.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&ir=UK 

Victorian Education Department stands by senior bureaucrat Sonia Sharp

Victorian Education Department stands by senior bureaucrat Sonia Sharp, named in damning Rotherham sex abuse report 

One of the senior British bureaucrats who failed to prevent the systematic rape and physical abuse of  children in the English town of Rotherham has relocated to Melbourne and been appointed a deputy secretary in Victoria's Education Department.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/victoria/victorian-education-department-stands-by-senior-bureaucrat-sonia-sharp-named-in-damning-rotherham-sex-abuse-report-20140829-109xx6.html 

Drugged and targeted for sex in Rotherham: they were the lucky ones

1400 children were abused and raped in the northern English town.  Vicky counts herself as one of the lucky ones. Stalked from the age of 15, plied with drink and slipped drugs until she became estranged from her despairing parents; ferried at night by strangers twice her age to unknown male-only parties; on one occasion locked in a house, her only escape through a window.
She was bullied and pestered constantly for sex, but unlike some of her friends she was never raped. In modern day Rotherham, that is seen as good fortune.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/drugged-and-targeted-for-sex-in-rotherham-they-were-the-lucky-ones-20140830-10abt7.html 

Second agency 'lost' copy of child sex files

Deepening fears of cover-up add to pressure for a national inquiry. Fears over an establishment cover-up of an alleged Westminster paedophile ring in the 1980s deepened as it emerged that "explosive" evidence lost by the Home Office was also handed to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The dossier, believed to contain child abuse allegations relating to at least eight public figures, was compiled by the campaigning Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, who died in 1995.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/child-abuse/news/article.cfm?c_id=146&objectid=11289283 

Man raised in orphanages uses memoir to reach the abused, abandoned

Sr. Camille: The publication of your memoir, Raised by the Church (by Edward Rohs and Judith Estrine), has resulted in numerous interviews in print, radio and television. Why do you think this is?
Edward Rohs: First of all, my story is unique and, as everyone tells me, it's heart-wrenching. Second, very little has been written about orphanages and institutions in New York City. It's a book about the history of orphanages coupled with my personal upbringing in five Catholic orphanages. People are intrigued to learn what it's like to grow up without parents.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/conversations-sr-camille/man-raised-orphanages-uses-memoir-reach-abused-abandoned 

Cover-up claim as child abuse files disappear

A paedophile scandal engulfing Westminster deepened after the British Home Office confessed to losing or destroying 114 "potentially relevant" files.
The lost files are part of an investigation into the handling of a dossier about child abuse allegations presented to Lord Leon Brittan, a former Home Secretary.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/child-abuse/news/article.cfm?c_id=146&objectid=11288715 

Nun rejects claims of child abuse at Derry care home

One of the Sisters of Nazareth who staffed a children’s home in Derry has denied allegations of physical, emotional and psychological abuse of boys under her care.

The nun, the first to answer questions at the abuse inquiry since it began public hearings in January, denied she ever hit any child or lost her temper. She further denied children were ridiculed or mocked by her for running away or wetting the bed. Allegations of ritual humiliation were also rejected by her.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/nun-rejects-claims-of-child-abuse-at-derry-care-home-1.1778825 

Complaints of Sex Abuse by Nuns Begin to Emerge

The Pain Is Strong for Accusers Just Coming to Terms with What They Say Happened to Them. Even now, decades later, the victims' voices falter as they describe the encounters that damaged them in ways they cannot fully cast off.
Mary Dunford tells of a molester visiting her dormitory bed when she was 15. Susan Pavlak speaks of the teacher who talked to her of love, then seduced her at 16. Siblings Christine Bertrand and Karen Britten and their childhood friend Patricia Schwartz describe how their piano teacher touched them in ways no adult should touch a child.

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/05_06/2006_06_24_Miller_ComplaintsOf.htm 

Sexual Abuse and the Culture of Catholicism

How Priests and Nuns Become Perpetrators Sexual Abuse and the Culture of Catholicism digs beneath the public scandals to explore the underlying causes of sexual abuse by priests and nuns from the unique perspective of an abuse victim/survivor who is an experienced mental health practitioner and social science researcher. This powerful book includes the author’s personal account of sexual abuse by a nun and her years of struggle to recover. Passionate but scholarly and objective, the book advocates the need for healing dialogue, empirical research, and informed prevention strategies to bring a meaningful resolution to the crisis of sexual abuse in the church.

http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Abuse-Culture-Catholicism-Perpetrators/dp/0789029561 

Psychotic nuns ran children's home like Nazi concentration camp

The Sisters of Nazareth property in Londonderry was like a Nazi concentration camp, with youngsters' screams of despair still haunting survivors, the UK's largest ever inquiry into institutional child abuse was told.
Inmates formed chain gangs to polish floors until they sparkled – with arms linked and rags under both feet – and were beaten with bamboo canes and straps

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/psychotic-nuns-ran-childrens-home-like-nazi-concentration-camp-abuse-inquiry-is-told-29959634.html 

1,400 Children in Rotherham, England, Were Sexually Abused

A report released on Tuesday on accusations of widespread sexual abuse in the northern England city of Rotherham found that about 1,400 minors — some as young as 11 years old — were beaten, raped and trafficked from 1997 to 2013 as the local authorities ignored a series of red flags.

Some children were doused in gasoline and threatened with being set on fire if they reported their abusers, the report said, and others were forced to watch rapes and threatened with the same fate. In more than a third of the cases, the victims appear to have been known to child protection agencies, but the police and local government officials failed to act.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/europe/children-in-rotherham-england-were-sexually-abused-report-says.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140826&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y&_r=0 

Rotherdam: Cowardice must never be an option

Child protection officials in Rotherham, England are facing worldwide scorn for saying that they did not report the sexual abuse of 1400 children because they feared being branded “racists.”
The child victims were horrifically molested and trafficked by men of Pakistani descent over a 16-year period. At the time, government officials knew about approximately a third of the abuse allegations … and did nothing (or impeded arrest and prosecution).

http://theworthyadversary.com/3106-rotherdam 

Abuse at Goodwood Orphanage, Adelaide, South Australia 1950s

My name is Mary. I was at the Goodwood Orphanage for some 13 years from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. I now live interstate. I have undertaken psychotherapy since then, and my doctor reports that I am one of the most traumatised patients she has had to deal with.
When I used to wet the bed I would be forced to stand with the wet sheet over my head while standing on the white line. I was then made to wash the sheet in cold water by hand, barely able to reach the tub. Then I would have to go and hang the sheet on the line. This started between the ages of 7-9. 

http://netk.net.au/AbuseCases/GoodwoodMary.asp 

“Philomena” and Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries

The movie “Philomena,” which opens this week and stars Judi Dench, tells the true story of an unwed, pregnant Irish girl who is sent off to a convent, where her baby is given up for adoption against her will. Years later, as an elderly woman, Philomena tries to find her son.
The convent where Philomena was sent was a “Magdalen Laundry,” one of many convents across Ireland where thousands of girls – pregnant out of wedlock or otherwise deemed morally wayward – were placed by the church or their families. At the laundries, the girls endured harsh, unpaid labor to make restitution for their sins.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/philomena-and-irelands-magdalen-laundries/ 

The slaves of Magdalene

For decades, "bad" Irish girls were sent away to convent-run laundries, where they worked for no pay in awful conditions for years on end. Now, writes Jane Wheatley, survivors are finally getting compensation.

Martina Keogh was 16, selling newspapers outside a Dublin cinema, when a fight broke out on the street beside her. She was arrested along with the girls involved, sent to court and convicted of disorderly conduct. Her punishment would be two years' incarceration and unpaid labour in a convent laundry run by nuns.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-slaves-of-magdalene-20131216-2zfwd.html 

MYTHS OF THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES

Prejudice, as the psychologist Gordon W. Allport stressed, is always an “unwarranted” attitude. If someone experiences severe discomfort by eating certain foods, there is nothing prejudicial about refusing to eat any more of them. But there is something prejudicial about making sweeping generalizations about an entire category of food, or a community of people, when one’s experiences are limited. One contemporary example of prejudice is the popular perception of the nuns who ran Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.

http://www.catholicleague.org/myths-of-the-magdalene-laundries/ 

Magdalene Laundries: Survivor stories

Two survivors of Ireland's Magdalene laundries have spoken of their experiences.

Marina Gambold was taken to a laundry aged 16 by a priest. She remembers being forced to eat off the floor.
Maureen Sullivan, now 60, was sent to a Magdalene laundry in New Ross, County Wexford, at the age of 12.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21345995 

New files reveal decades of abuse in Los Angeles Catholic churches

Hundreds of pages of secret church files released Wednesday shed light on the troublesome careers of a dozen religious order priests, brothers and nuns accused of sexually abusing children while working in the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese.
The files include one case of a priest who later admitted to having sexual contact with more than 100 boys while serving in several Southern California parishes for years.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/los-angeles-catholic-church-sex-abuse-files-released-article-1.1414495 

Sisters of Nazareth evidence 'haphazard and piecemeal'

Sisters of Nazareth nuns have given their evidence to Northern Ireland's Historical Abuse Inquiry in a "haphazard and piecemeal fashion", the inquiry has been told.

The inquiry is investigating abuse claims against children's residential institutions from 1922 to 1995.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-25903194 

Rotherdam: Cowardice must never be an option

Child protection officials in Rotherham, England are facing worldwide scorn for saying that they did not report the sexual abuse of 1400 children because they feared being branded “racists.”
The child victims were horrifically molested and trafficked by men of Pakistani descent over a 16-year period. At the time, government officials knew about approximately a third of the abuse allegations … and did nothing (or impeded arrest and prosecution).

http://theworthyadversary.com/3106-rotherdam 

Catholic priest and children's home boss in court accused of abusing young boys

Catholic priest and former children's home boss appear in court accused of abusing young boys in their care in the 1980s  Father Anthony McSweeney, 67, and John Stingemore, 72, are charged with abusing young boys in their care during the 1980s. 

Both men are accused of together indecently assaulting a boy under 16 between November 1980 and July 1981 at Grafton Close children's home in Hounslow, west London.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2736009/Catholic-priest-former-children-s-home-boss-appear-court-accused-abusing-young-boys-care-1980s.html 

Abused victims/survivors sent the same apologies

Apologies sent to victims of pedophile priests from the Melbourne archbishop were identical form letters with just the names changed.
Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart said he was unable to know the confidential details of each case, so the letters he signed from 2001 to 2013 were general apologies.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/08/26/11/58/abuse-victims-sent-form-letters-inquiry 

'I told a lie and the nun beat me repeatedly with scissors

David Lane bites his nails so much that he has to wear false tips. Despite almost fifty years spent biting, the pain of the past can’t be eaten away.
The 54-year-old is one of the countless victims who suffered horrific abuse while in the care of an order of nuns in one of Ireland’s former children’s institutions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1185094/I-told-lie-nun-beat-repeatedly-scissors-Child-abuse-victim-reveals-horror-past.html 

Voices of the lost:

Voices of the lost: Speaking of being sent to Australia as a child migrant.  Ann McVeigh was five years old when the nuns sent her away. Born to a single mother in 1944, she had been put in an orphanage at the age of three weeks.

Her mother, from Armagh, never forgot her. She had gone on to marry and have other children and always intended coming back for her eldest daughter.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-24631170 

Catholic nuns also abused children

So far, reports of abuse within the Church have focused almost exclusively on male clerics. But many young children also suffered at the hands of Catholic nuns.

In the late 1950s, the Roman Catholic Hospital of Our Dear Lady Mother of in Eindhoven was hell for Petra Jorissen. The reason had a name: sister Johanetty. "We will break that little will of yours, break it," she would squeal, as she forced the remains of a meal Jorissen had just thrown up back down her throat. 

http://vorige.nrc.nl/international/article2530647.ece/Catholic_nuns_also_abused_children 

Children were made to eat their own vomit and bathed in disinfectant

The largest ever public inquiry into child abuse at residential care homes in Northern Ireland has heard harrowing details of victim's experiences.  Children at residential homes run by Catholic nuns in Northern Ireland were made to eat their own vomit, a lawyer said.

Others who wet their beds were forced to put soiled sheets on their heads by members of a harsh regime devoid of love, the largest ever public inquiry into child abuse at residential homes was told.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sisters-nazareth-inquiry-children-catholic-3067015 

Northern Ireland child abuse inquiry to hear victims of Derry nuns

The UK's biggest ever child abuse inquiry will hear evidence on Monday from victims who were abused in two Derry homes run by Catholic nuns.
Based in Banbridge courthouse in Northern Ireland, the historical institutional abuse inquiry will focus on the maltreatment of children in Nazareth children's home and Termonbacca, both run by the Sisters of Nazareth.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/27/northern-ireland-child-abuse-inquiry-nuns-sisters-nazareth 

Strong reactions to Joanne McCarthy on ABC's Australian Story

Read Joanne McCarthy's work on child abuse by the Catholic Church  here.

COMMENT: Why we need a royal commission into church sex abuse (the opinion piece The Newcastle Herald was inundated on Tuesday with a wave of reactions from across the nation after ABC’s Australian Story on journalist Joanne McCarthy and her investigation  into child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. Joanne McCarthy talks about in Australian Story)

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2515799/strong-reactions-to-joanne-mccarthy-on-abcs-australian-story/?cs=12 

LCWR’s long-standing coverup of sexual abuse of children by nuns

The Dissenter’s Breviary, NCR, and the "magisterium of nuns", LCWR, are abusing the abuse crisis for their own ends. Have a look at the recent NCR piece, "Compromised hierarchy needs relational wisdom of women" by Charlene Spretnak.
Spretnak draws an opposition between the "patriarchal value system" of the "men’s club" and the "relational wisdom of women", which she says is exemplified, in part, by the "[harassed] communities of nuns" and by other women in the Catholic Church.  

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/06/lcwrs-long-standing-coverup-of-sexual-abuse-of-children-by-nuns/ 

Catholic officials admits nun abuse is “invisible;”

Statement by Steve Theisen of Hudson IA, Iowa director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (319 231 1663, Ltreggiefan@cs.com)
Next week, America’s largest group of nuns meets in Orlando. And today, a former top Catholic official publicly admits that child sex crimes by nuns are “invisible.” 

http://www.snapnetwork.org/catholic_officials_admits_nun_abuse_is_invisible_snap_responds 

Catholic nun sentenced in abuse of boys 40 years ago

A 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun and former principal of St. Patrick's Congregation grade school was sentenced Friday to a year in the House of Correction and 10 years of probation for molesting two boys more than 40 years ago.
Sister Norma Giannini, a member of the Sisters of Mercy, was sentenced to five years in prison on each of two felonies by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge M. Joseph Donald, but he stayed the sentences.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29500544.html 

Nuns caught beating sick kids

Nuns have been captured on video beating sick children in a village in northern Poland.
The kids, who suffer from Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and autism, were seen being hit by a passer-by, who took the footage on his mobile.

http://www.newpolandexpress.pl/polish_news_story-1318-nuns_caught_beating_sick_kids.php 

Irish nuns under investigation for forcing kids to eat their own puke

Irish nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth children’s homes in Londonderry, Northern Ireland are being accused of forcing kids to eat their own vomit and putting soiled bed sheets on their heads as a type of punishment. This is according to what the biggest public inquiry into institutional child abuse was told. 
Children of all ages had no other choice but to bathe in disinfectant and were violently hit for wetting the bed, according to one media source. Now, the Catholic nuns from the children’s homes are under investigation for child abuse.

http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_01_30/Irish-nuns-under-investigation-for-forcing-kids-to-eat-their-own-puke-1703/

Torture, Assassinations, Vaccine Trials, Child Trafficking

Torture, Assassinations, Vaccine Trials, Child Trafficking Conducted By Nuns Around The World. If you research nuns and their various religious orders, you will find the hypocrite values they claim to uphold. There is the Sisters of Mercy who claim to stand for love.The torture, assassinations, human experiments, child trafficking and organ trafficking they have managed to cover up for decades is now coming to light.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/53545205/Torture-Assassinations-Vaccine-Trials-Child-Trafficking-Conducted-By-Nuns-Around-The-World 

How the Irish Government protected the Catholic Church

Excerpt from David Yallop’s book, Beyond Belief: The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal (published by Constable in 2010). As of now, many people across the world would not allow an unaccompanied child to enter a Roman Catholic Church.
 The spiritual cost, however, is far greater. Sexual abuse of any kind by a priest is an act that, not just physically, but spiritually is nothing less than the rape of a victim. 

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2013/05/child-abuse-scandal-how-the-irish-government-protected-the-catholic-church/ 

Quebec's Orphans Used as Guinea Pigs? falsely declared them mentally ill

For many people, sitting near a body of water is a relaxing experience. For Clarina Duguay of Quebec, it inspires terrifying memories from her childhood—memories so painful she can scarcely find words to express them more than 50 years later. 

 http://www.freedommag.org/english/press/page07.htm

Mount Cashel Orphanage Abuse Scandal Timeline

Mount Cashel residents Johnny Williams and Derek O'Brien, along with Williams's cousin Brenda Ann Marie Lundrigan, complain to the Department of Social Services that a Christian Brother beat Williams. They allege that some of the Christian Brothers working at the Mount Cashel Boys' Home sexually and physically abuse residents. No investigation ensues and the trio does not hear back from the department or the police.

http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/wells_gov_mt_cashel_timeline.html 

Bridget’s Story Abuse at Goodwood Orphanage

[The name of the Complainant has been changed in order to comply with the provisions of the Evidence Act SA]
My name is Bridget, and I migrated to Australia with my family who were from Eastern Europe. I was born in Western Europe, and my family had been in a displaced person’s camp prior to our move to Australia. My mother was not well, and she was admitted to mental hospitals. I think she suffered from depression. My brother was taken to the orphanage at Largs Bay.

http://netk.net.au/AbuseCases/GoodwoodBridget.asp 

South Dakota Boarding School Survivors Detail Sexual Abuse

The Dakota expression for child, wakan injan, can be translated as “they too are sacred,” according to Glenn Drapeau, Ihanktonwan Dakota and a member of the Elk Soldier Society on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. “To us, children are as pure as the holy, moving energy of the universe,” he says, “and we treat them that way.”  

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/07/28/south-dakota-boarding-school-survivors-detail-sexual-abuse-42420 

CANADA Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered

Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for Mohawk operated by the Church of England and the Vatican before its closure in 1970.      According to Rev. Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and States, the Mohawk Institute was, “set up by the Anglican Church of England in 1832 to imprison and destroy generations of Mohawk children. This very first Indian residential school in Canada lasted until 1970, and, like in most residential schools, more than half of the children imprisoned there never returned. Many of them are buried all around the school.”

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican69.htm 

Irish seek truth behind babes’ unburied bones

TUAM, Ireland — In 1975, Frannie Hopkins and Barry Sweeney were playing in an apple orchard just off the Dublin Road where the old St. Mary’s mothers and babies home used to be.
Frannie Hopkins, 12, jumped from a wall and whatever he landed on made a funny noise. Barry Sweeney, 10, followed suit and the hollow they felt made them curious.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/23/irish-seek-truth-behind-bones/geIYMiLFznAKVfFtPjqkIN/story.html 

Massive child abuse within Dutch Catholic church

Thousands of Dutch children have been abused within the Dutch Catholic church between 1945 and 1981, a government investigation committee reported on Friday in The Hague.
Between estimated 10,000 and 20,000 children were abused in Catholic schools, boarding schools and orphanages. Several thousands of them were severely sexually abused.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7679797.html

Catholic Church Evades Sex Charges in South Dakota

"When the nuns wanted you at night, they'd come get you from the dorm," recalled Mary Jane Wanna Drum, 64, who as a young child lived at one of South Dakota's several Catholic-run boarding schools for Native American children.
"My older sister would tell them I had an earache. 'Take me,' she'd say. It wasn't until this year, when my siblings and I began talking about all this, that I realized she protected me whenever she could. How do I thank her for that?" asked Drum.

http://womensenews.org/story/in-the-courts/110408/catholic-church-evades-sex-charges-in-south-dakota#.U_lLuGP1CUk 

Over 300 Canadian orphans abused by Catholic Christian Brothers at Mount Cashel Orphanage

In 1989, the Catholic religious order known as "Christian Brothers of Ireland in Canada" decided to close Mount Cashel Orphanage after being exposed of systematic sexual abuse of children.
During the same time, the Christian Brothers were abusing children not just in Canada, but in Ireland as well, as published in 2009 Ireland's "Ryan Report".

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1960906/pg1 

Irish church 'covered up child abuse'

Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse by priests to protect the church's reputation, an expert commission has reported after a three-year investigation.
Abuse victims welcomed the report on the Dublin Archdiocese's mishandling of abuse complaints against its parish priests from 1975 to 2004. It followed a parallel report published in May into five decades of rape, beatings and other cruelty committed by Catholic orders of nuns and brothers nationwide in church-run schools, children's workhouses and orphanages from the 1930s to mid-1990s. 

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/83685/irish-church-039covered-child-abuse039 

Catholic Church child abuse scandal: religion as a licence to prey

Ireland in the 20th Century: for countless small children, orphans alone in the world and children confined in special prisons for some petty crime against property or for bunking off school, life in institutions and schools run by Catholic priests and nuns was a childhood-long nightmare of violence at the hands of nuns, priests and Christian Brothers (a male, monklike, celibate, teaching order).

http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2010/04/01/catholic-church-child-abuse-scandal-religion-licence-prey 

With One Eye Closed: Illegal Orphanages in Rural China

The state appreciates the crucial gap unregistered orphanages fill– until something goes wrong. In January of this year, The Huffington Post reported on a fire that killed six children and one young adult “at an illegally run orphanage in central China:”
“The deaths Friday in Henan province’s Lankao county have spotlighted China’s lack of government-run child services. They are often left to private citizens with few resources and no legal authority. The Lankao government earlier acknowledged that it had turned a blind eye to the illegal orphanage, which cared for abandoned children and young adults.…The deputy county governor said earlier that some departments had failed in supervision and should shoulder responsibility.”

http://thediplomat.com/2013/07/with-one-eye-closed-illegal-orphanages-in-rural-china/ 

An Irish Catholic orphanage hid the bodies of 800 children

They have no headstones, no coffins. No memory boxes of toys and photographs. There are nearly eight hundred of them – and counting. They are the 796 babies and young children aged between two days and nine years whose grave, “filled to the brim with tiny bones and skulls,” was found last week in an unmarked site that once housed a septic tank near a County Galway home for unwed mothers.

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/an_irish_catholic_orphanage_hid_the_bodies_of_800_children/ 

Sinead O'Connor reveals her abuse in Catholic Magdalene Laundries

“We were girls in there, not women, just children really. Moreover, the girls in there cried every day. It was a prison. We didn’t see our families, we were locked in, cut off from life, deprived of a normal childhood.
“We were told we were there because we were bad people. Some of the girls had been raped at home and not believed.One girl was in because she had a bad hip and her family didn’t know what to do with her. 

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/feb/7/sinead-oconnor-reveals-her-abuse-catholic-magdalan/ 

The Torture And Murder of More Than 200,000 Children

The Torture And Murder of More Than 200,000 Children Known As Duplessis Orphans, Called the crime of the century and Canadian holocaust by Rod Vienneau, whose wife was a child victim who escaped, he added that Vatican and CIA are still covering up the mass murder of children.Cloistered Nuns Hellish Treatment.  

http://wesdancin.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/cia-north-american-government-officials-and-vatican-complicit-in-the-torture-and-murder-of-more-than-100000-children-known-as-duplessis-orphans/ 

Sex Abuse by Nuns Alleged at Md. Protest

Four women and a man who say they are victims of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic nuns held a news conference yesterday outside the Silver Spring headquarters of an organization of nuns to spotlight what they contend is an unrecognized problem. 

"I'm here today because I'm concerned that in the midst of the sex abuse scandal about priests . . . people are not paying attention to the fact that people were sexually abused by nuns and sisters," said Mary Guentner, 46, a social worker from near Milwaukee who said she was sexually abused by a nun for four years, beginning in her senior year of high school.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47415-2004Jul13.html 

A decade later, struggle for accountability within LCWR on abuse continues

Last week, we in the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests celebrated our 25th anniversary. This week, we take note of another, less positive milestone.
It's now been 10 years since we first began prodding the largest group of U.S. nuns to take action on abuse by women religious. It's been a frustrating and fruitless decade.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/examining-crisis/decade-later-struggle-accountability-within-lcwr-abuse-continues 

Nun jailed in child abuse case

A nun was clinging to liberty this week after a court threw out a request to extend the suspension of a two-year sentence passed down in 2010 for the physical and psychological abuse of children in her care.
Agnieszka F., known by her religious name of Sister Bernadette, is the former director of the Special Education Centre of the Sisters of St. Borromeo in Zabrze, Silesia, where she worked from 1991 to 2007.

http://www.newpolandexpress.pl/polish_news_story-6484-nun_jailed_in_child_abuse_case.php

Montana Catholic Church, Ursulines Face Sexual-Abuse Charges

On Tuesday, September 27, Tamaki Law of Yakima, Washington, and Morales Law Office of Missoula, Montana, filed a complaint against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena (Montana) and the Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province. The two law firms did so on behalf of 45 Salish, Kootenai, Blackfeet, Chippewa, Cree and Gros Ventre adults who suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse as children at Catholic-run schools in Montana.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/09/28/montana-catholic-church-ursulines-face-sexual-abuse-charges-56027 

The Legacy of Church-run Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland

In the wake of the Ryan and Murphy reports*, both released in 2009, often the memories of the children, women and workers involved have taken a sideline to the question of who is to blame for systemic abuse. But while the Irish public attempts to heal from this broken past and demand justice, more stories are on the verge of disappearance: those of the unknown women and babies who lived in Church-run mother and baby homes and of the American families who adopted these children from the 1940s until the early 70s.

http://irishamerica.com/2010/08/the-legacy-of-church-run-mother-and-baby-homes-in-ireland/ 

Victims care more about justice than money

A commissioner of the Catholic Church's Melbourne Response has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that victims told him they wanted justice, not money.

Jeffery Gleeson QC, who investigates complaints of abuse under Commissioner Peter O'Callaghan QC, told the inquiry that victims just wanted to be believed.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-22/royal-commission-into-child-abuse-justice-money/5689834 

abuse files released by 5 Catholic religious orders

Five Catholic religious orders released the confidential personnel files of a dozen priests and nuns accused of sexually abusing children for decades as they worked as trusted religious leaders in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20130731/more-church-abuse-scandal-files-released-by-5-catholic-religious-orders 

Abuse by nuns is ignored

Last week, another child molesting nun was publicly exposed. She’s Sister Agnes Daniels, who worked at St. Mary School in Boston when she reportedly committed the abuse. (Thanks to attorney Mitchell Garabedian for disclosing the accusations.)

http://www.snapnetwork.org/abuse_by_nuns_is_ignored 

Habits of Sin

Habits of Sin:An Expose of Nuns Who Sexually Abuse Children and Each Other.
In recent years, revelations of childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests have broken out from behind a well-guarded wall of secrecy.  Despite the publicity of hundreds of such cases, one area of healing and investigation remains:  that of women religious who also are guilty of sexually abusing children and each other. 

http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Sin-Expose-Sexually-Children-ebook/dp/B005D7TPAQ

The Unbreakable Child

The Unbreakable Child: A story about forgiving the unforgivable. The Unbreakable Child is a riveting journey inside the secretive underbelly of the St. Thomas / Saint Vincent Orphan Asylum in rural Kentucky. It is the first book in the United States to confront the institutionalized physical and emotional abuse suffered by countless orphans at the hands of Catholic clergy over these last decades.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Unbreakable-Child-forgiving-unforgivable/dp/0615714692 

Catholic nun stands trial over 63 counts

Catholic nun stands trial over 63 counts of physical and sexual abuse of children Catholic nun stand.

A Catholic nun has been charged with the “systematic” abuse of seven schoolgirls in the 1970s. Sister Mary Teresa Grogan has denied the 63 counts of indecent assault put to her. The lawyer for the prosecution, Aileen Donnelly SC, said that during the trial the other complainants would be giving evidence to the court of “highly similar” but not identical assaults, the Irish Times reports.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2960566/posts 

State MP Frank McGuire slams Cardinal George Pell

CARDINAL George Pell has been blasted by state Labor MP Frank McGuire over evidence provided about a paedophile priest during a parliamentary inquiry.
Calling for a fresh investigation into the Catholic Church’s response to decades-long sex offences committed in Doveton — uncovered in the 1980s and 1990s — Mr McGuire accused Cardinal Pell of glossing over crimes of former priest Peter Searson.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/state-mp-frank-mcguire-slams-cardinal-george-pell-over-church-sex-abuse-evidence/story-fni0fit3-1227031212190 

Vatican letter told Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report child abuse

A copy of the 1997 letter from the Vatican, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to AP, warning Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police.
A letter to Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops has been revealed by the broadcaster RTE that contradicts the Vatican's frequent claim it has never instructed clergy to withhold evidence or suspicion of child abuse from police.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/18/vatican-irish-bishops-child-abuse 

Valley priest accused of child sex crimes

A Catholic priest in Los Banos is under investigation for possible sex crimes against a teen.
As the faithful gathered at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Friday, police were next door, serving a search warrant.
The night before, the Diocese of Fresno alerted police of possible internet sex crimes against a local teen by the church's lead pastor, Father Bob Gamel.

http://abc30.com/news/valley-priest-accused-of-child-sex-crimes/271723/ 

Church denies buying victims' legal rights

The Catholic Church denies buying off sexual abuse victims for a modest sum to avoid being sued, but says it understands why people believe it did.
Hundreds of victims of pedophile priests signed away their rights to sue the church for compensation payments under its Melbourne Response scheme for handling clergy sex abuse complaints.

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/church-denies-buying-victims-legal-rights-20140820-3e008.html 

Catholic Church lawyer admits Church knew of paedophile priest in 1958

The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne's lawyer has given evidence to the child sex abuse royal commission that the Catholic Church knew of allegations Father Kevin O'Donnell was a paedophile as far back as 1958 but did nothing about it. O'Donnell went on to abuse primary school girl Emma Foster in the 1980s but Richard Leder gave evidence the Church contested the case when it went to court.

http://omnyapp.com/shows/abc-pm/catholic-church-lawyer-admits-church-knew-of-paedo 

What changes did Martin Luther make to the Catholic church?

The changes Martin Luther made to the catholic church were: They had to print the bible in more than one language. He also thought that people should not have to pay the church to ask for god's forgiveness for a sin. Remember this is not Martin Luther King Jr.

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_changes_did_Martin_Luther_make_to_the_Catholic_church 

Nuns accused of rape

ELEANOR HALL: Now to the allegations of yet more child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, this time abuse by nuns. The church is today responding publicly to the accusation that a nun raped a young girl at the Nazareth House orphanage in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Wynnum in the 1950's. And that that rape was part of a pattern of sexual and physical abuse at the orphanage.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s660987.htm

Catholic Whistleblowers An Uncomfortable Truth.

It is hard for many people to accept that women are also sexual abusers of children.  And it's probably harder for some to realize that there are Catholic sisters who commit such heinous crimes.  But we know of at least 1,000 cases recorded in this country which must be dealt with.

http://www.catholicwhistleblowers.com/whistleblower-essays 

Nuns Who Commit Sexual Abuse and the Annexation of Mercy

Steve Theisen, 61, is the Iowa director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). Unlike the vast majority of men and women whose lives have been positively affected by the support SNAP provides to victims of clergy abuse, Theisen was not sexually abused by a Catholic priest: he was sexually abused by a Catholic nun.

http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/08/15/catholic-nun-sexual-abuse-and-the-annexation-of-mercy/ 

Vatican letter told Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report child abuse

A letter to Ireland‘s Roman Catholic bishops has been revealed by the broadcaster RTE that contradicts the Vatican‘s frequent claim it has never instructed clergy to withhold evidence or suspicion of child abuse from police.
A copy of the 1997 letter from the Vatican, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to AP, warning Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police.

http://rapevictimsofthecatholicchurch.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/vatican-letter-told-irelands-catholic-bishops-not-to-report-child-abuse/ 

Abuse victims still calling after 18 years

AFTER 18 years investigating pedophiles in the Catholic Church, Peter O'Callaghan QC is sure of one thing: people don't make up stories about sexual abuse.
HE was appointed in 1996 to investigate sexual abuse in the Melbourne archdiocese and thought the claims would flood in over the first six months.

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/child-abuse-victims-may-not-be-heard/story-e6frfku9-1227028849996 

Cardinal should have gone ‘earlier’

Dundalk man Brendan Boland, who has just published a book on his experience of abuse by the serial paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth, has said he is disappointed with the Cardinal’s letter of resignation to the Pope.

http://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/local-news/cardinal-should-have-gone-earlier-1-6246383 

Young priest hides face...

A young priest was granted bail this afternoon after being arraigned before a magistrate in Gozo to face charges of child molestation.
The priest, believed to be in his thirties, covered his face as he was taken to court.
The sitting was held held behind closed doors following a request by lawyer Carmelo Galea. Reporters were ordered out of the courtroom. The court also banned publication of the priest's name.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140819/local/young-priest-hides-face-as-he-is-arraigned-over-alleged-child-abuse-bail-granted-after-sitting-behind-closed-doors.532432 

Economic impact of child abuse profound, says ESRI

Childhood sexual abuse has a profound long-term economic impact on survivors, according to a new study by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).

Even decades after the abuse occurred, survivors are more than twice as likely as others to be out of the labour force as a result of being sick or permanently disabled, the research has established.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/economic-impact-of-child-abuse-profound-says-esri-1.1897395 

‘Spotlight’ script tells the story of Globe series

As you know, a big-budget Hollywood movie about The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal is in the works, and we managed to get our hands on a draft of the script, dated June 2013.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2014/08/18/spotlight-script-tells-story-globe-series/qzgm5dd7ztbZdMjT146VSI/story.html 

MO- Victims challenge Presbyterian officials

Victims challenge Presbyterian officials They sent six lawyers in convicted sex offender case
After a child porn conviction, they still hired him as pastor He is now serving 30 years for child porn & illegal castration Stop "cruel and intimidating" legal maneuvers, group says They beg church officials to reach out to victims in churches & Scouts

http://www.snapnetwork.org/mo_victims_challenge_presbyterian_officials

Priest rapes eight-yr-old, held

Police have arrested a priest for having allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl within the premises of a temple in Satbiri area of south Delhi on the occasion on Janmashtami.
According to the police, the incident took place last night when the girl was playing in the temple yard with a few children on the occasion of Janmashtami.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/priest-rapes-eight-yr-old-held-114081901476_1.html

New documents reveal disturbing details

The details were kept sealed for years, but new documents show explicit details about the abuse one teen who says he suffered at the hands of former father, Jean Ronald Joseph. "We did reach a settlement last month, says Adam Horowitz, attorney for the victim. "It was a 6 figure settlement."

http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2014-08-19/New-documents-reveal-disturbing-details

NM Archdiocese Accused of Thirty-Year Cover-up

Just when you think it’s really and truly finally over, the past reaches out and grabs at you like a zombie hand from a grave. Once again the scandal of clergy sexual abuse hangs over the Land of Enchantment as new lawsuits are filed.

http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2014/08/nm-archdiocese-cover-up/ 

Catholic Church urged to show 'moral compass' ahead of clergy sexual abuse hearings

The Catholic Church is being urged to show its "moral compass" as an inquiry resumes in Melbourne into alleged child sexual abuse by priests.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will hear from victims and representatives of the church, including Cardinal George Pell, who is scheduled to give evidence via video link from the Vatican on Thursday.

https://au.prime7.yahoo.com/v1/news/a/-/national/24738231/royal-commission-catholic-church-urged-to-show-moral-compass-ahead-of-clergy-sexual-abuse-hearings/contact-us/ 

Christine Foster ‘betrayed’ by George Pell abuse apology and church warning

THE mother of two girls who were abused by one of Victoria’s most notorious paedophile priests has told how she felt “betrayed” by receiving an apology from then Archbishop George Pell as well as a warning against litigation in the same month.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/christine-foster-betrayed-by-george-pell-abuse-apology-and-church-warning/story-e6frg6nf-1227027923917 

In New Lawsuits, 11 Men Allege Sexual Abuse by Clergy

Eleven men allege in lawsuits filed yesterday that they were sexually abused as children by six Catholic priests and a religious brother between 1955 and 1982.
The civil suits, filed in Hillsborough County Superior Court, bring to about 120 the number of people who allege they were molested by New Hampshire Catholic clerics since the church sex scandal broke in January, Manchester attorney Mark A. Abramson said.

 http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2002_07_30_Marchocki_InNew.htm

Abusive Priest's Past Employer on the Hook

An Ohio church that failed to report an abusive priest owes damages to the teenager he victimized at his next parish, a state appeals court ruled.
     Jessica Simpkins said she was 15 when Brian Williams, the senior pastor at Sunbury Grace Brethren Church, raped her in March 2008. Williams was sent to prison for eight years for two counts of sexual battery.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/08/18/70512.htm 

Judge questions the constitutionality of HIV law used to charge Cleveland priest

The soliciting case against a Cleveland priest was thrown into doubt this morning after a judge questioned the constitutionality of the law governing the crime he was charged with.
The Rev. James McGonegal, 69, the former pastor of St. Ignatius of Antioch Church, is charged with soliciting sex from an undercover ranger at Edgewater Park last October.

http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/08/judge_questions_the_constituti.html 

OH- Alleged sex offender priest challenges law; SNAP responds

Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, davidgclohessy@gmail.com)
A Cleveland Catholic priest is challenging an Ohio law that requires HIV positive adults to disclose their condition to sexual partners. It seems that no group of sex offenders try harder to overturn sex-related laws more than Catholic priests. We've seen accused Catholic clerics challenge indecent exposure, sex offender registry,

http://www.snapnetwork.org/oh_alleged_sex_offender_priest_challenges_law_snap_responds 

Rotting from the inside: sex abuse and the Catholic Church

Catholic sex abuse has a long and ongoing history intertwined with that of religious institutions.

From Ireland to Malta the pandemic has swept across the world, but its caliber remains veiled from the public eye. RT looks at the scale of the problem.

It is almost too soon to give an unemotional response to the revelations of routine sex abuse by appointees, officers, members and employees of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

http://rt.com/news/rotting-from-the-inside-sex-abuse-and-the-catholic-church/