Nazareth House a "cesspool of pedophilia"

A former chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego and administrator at the University of San Diego was named in a civil suit yesterday alleging he raped a schoolgirl in 1972. Monsignor I.B. Eagen, who died of cancer in 1997 at age 67, was included in the latest of what is expected to be close to 100 lawsuits charging sexual abuse by members of the clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego. 
The suit, filed on behalf of a now 45-year-old woman, also alleges abuse by a nun who worked at a boarding school called Nazareth House that for years operated near the San Diego Mission in Mission Valley. The suit also says the woman was abused by a caretaker at Nazareth House, identified as Richard Gordon, and later at University High School by a priest, Father Robert Buchanan, who served as a counselor at the school in San Diego. The defendants in the suit are the diocese, University High School and Nazareth House. 

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2003_10_15_Moran_LateChurch_Robert_Buchanan_ETC.htm 

Mother Teresa Was A Crook And A Fraud

Mother Teresa is famed for being one of history’s true altruists. She devoted her life to the poor, opening her first Missionaries of Charity home in 1950s Calcutta, and going on to open hundreds more across the world. As word of her mission spread, it caught the public imagination and millions of dollars began to pour in, all of which went to help those who needed it most. At least, that’s the official version.
The reality is far grimmer. According to those who’ve volunteered there, Mother Teresa’s missions are squalid cesspits run along violent, authoritarian lines. There are reports of unruly children being tied to beds and beaten, of outdated equipment not being replaced, and of needles being reused in countries with high HIV infection rates (such as Haiti) until they were so blunt they caused pain. All of this wrapped up in a culture of unquestioning obedience, secrecy, and control that is said to resemble a cult.

http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/09/27/mother-teresa-was-a-crook-and-a-fraud/ 

Hidden from history; The Canadian Holocaust;

We always hear stories of all the kids who were killed at Kuper Island. A graveyard for the babies of the priests and girls was right south of the school until it was dug up by the priests when the school closed in 1973. The nuns would abort babies and sometimes end up killing the mothers. There were a lot of disappearances. 

My mother, who is 83 now, saw a priest drag a girl down a flight of stairs by her hair and the girl died as a result. Girls were raped and killed, and buried under the floorboards. We asked the local RCMP to exhume that place and search for remains but they've always refused, as recently as 1996. Corporal Sampson even threatened us. That kind of cover-up is the norm. Children were put together with kids sick with TB in the infirmary. That was standard procedure. We've documented thirty-five outright murders in a seven-year period. (Testimony of Diane Harris to the IHRAAM Tribunal, June 13, 1998)

http://www.whale.to/a/annett.html 

Bad girls do the best sheets

Before the welfare net existed, religious orders used to catch orphans and unmarried mothers abandoned by their families. Alan Gill writes how girls suffered under the nuns' vale of tears.
They were called "laundry slaves" - women and teenage girls employed in commercial laundries run by Catholic religious orders, the idea being to combine rehabilitation of supposed delinquents with the chance to earn a modest profit.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/23/1050777303111.html 

Another suspicious baby’s death in the care of Nuns in Ireland

The world has recently learned of the baby scandal in Spain where over 300,000 babies were stolen by nuns in hospitals and catholic maternity homes where mothers would be told that their babies were “still-born”, when the nuns were in fact trafficking the babies and selling them into adoptions.

This alarming baby trafficking ring certainly makes one wonder about the recently revealed case in Ireland, where a mother left her perfectly healthy baby in the care of the catholic nuns and after only 4 days in their care – the baby was proclaimed “dead”. The nuns even dared to send the parents a note telling them not to worry and that “the burial would be taken care of” – a chilling expression, as this is the exact same words that the unsuspecting mothers in Spain were told about the so-called “still-born” babies…

http://vaticancrimesinireland.blogspot.co.nz/2011/06/another-suspicious-babys-death-in-care.html 

Clerical Abuse Victims in Their Own Words

I had a hiding in the boot room, you had to take your shirt off, you were completely naked and he …(Br X)… beat me with a strap and a hurley stick on the behind and the legs and that.

One day it was …visitor’s day… they used to pick about half a dozen lads. You would be called to the hall. I was picked once and they would actually show the …visiting student Brothers… how to do the hiding. The Brother who was in charge of the playground, mostly Br …X… or Br …Y… would show them how it’s done, they would give you a hiding to show them and then they would have a go, with the black jack …(leather)… with loops of lead in it or steel.

http://bocktherobber.com/2009/05/clerical-abuse-victims-in-their-own-words/ 

Victims throw coins as cruelty nun walks free

A NUN convicted of cruelty to young girls in her care at a Roman Catholic children's home was admonished for her crimes yesterday but given no custodial sentence.

Sister Alphonso, 57, was spat on as she left Aberdeen Sheriff Court to shouts of "Rot in Hell" and a hail of coins from her victims. Sheriff Colin Harris said she would have been jailed if it had not been for her poor health, length of time since the offences were committed, the fact that she was a first time offender and a reduction in charges throughout the case.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/1357314/Victims-throw-coins-as-cruelty-nun-walks-free.html 

An Irish Dominican nun that was intensely disliked and feared

Today is the anniversary of the death of Sister M Catherine Walsh OP, Headteacher, for many years of St James' Secondary School, Burnt Oak, London. Known to both staff and pupils (behind her back) as 'Kate' she cut an extraordinary figure. Around five feet tall she was almost as rotund, her face resembled flayed pink leather and her mouth was a gash akin to a pillar box slit. I am being descriptive here, not gratuitously insulting.

http://linenonthehedgerow.blogspot.co.nz/2011/04/irish-dominican-nun-that-was-intensely.html 

New evidence that Irish children were murdered

Although the matter remains practically taboo there are questionable deaths in industrial and reform schools, Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes. “I remember lots of children dying,” said ‘Marion’. She told it to “Suffer the Little Children,” the book by Mary Raftery and Eoin O’Sullivan published in 1999.
Marion was placed in St. Joseph’s industrial school, Summerhill outside Athlone, County Westmeath in 1937. She was only a baby. She recalls “a girl who had her appendix out.” The nuns made the girl get up to work, despite the fact that when she came back from hospital she was ordered to rest. “A few days after they forced her to get up, she died. She was a lovely girl and she was only 15 years old.” There are similar reports from most of the industrial schools.

http://theraggedwagon.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/new-evidence-that-irish-children-were-murdered/ 

Devil in Disguise

Jerry Kobs wanted to take Communion before Christmas. It was a cold, windy morning in December of 2007 when he stepped inside St. Patrick’s, the near-South Side church where he grew up and the scene of all his childhood terror. TV stations had been covering the bizarre news of a nun accused of sexually abusing – more than 160 times – two boys back in the 1960s, back when Jerry was a bewildered seventh-grade victim. Kobs couldn’t help worrying that maybe someone would recognize him. There he is, one of those guys molested by the nun, Sister Norma Giannini.

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/07_08/2008_07_08_Mcbride_Devilin.htm 

I was too busy to be cruel to girls, nun tells court

A NUN facing charges of cruelty to girls in her care said that her contact with some of the alleged victims was so limited that she could not have carried out the abuse.

Sister Alphonso, 58, who is appearing in court under her real name of Marie Docherty, repeatedly protested her innocence at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. She denied giving children cold baths, force feeding them, making a girl eat her vomit, physical abuse and cursing her charges when they started their periods.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1354445/I-was-too-busy-to-be-cruel-to-girls-nun-tells-court.html 

Nun denies cruelty to 23 girls in care

A NUN was accused yesterday of "cruel and unnatural" treatment of girls in her care, including beating one with rosary beads and making others kiss her feet.

Marie Docherty, also known as Sister Alphonso, allegedly forced an epileptic girl into a cold bath while she was having a fit and used cleaning fluid to wash other girls' hair. She is also accused at Aberdeen Sheriff Court of throwing a child downstairs, forcing one to kiss a dead nun and making others in her care wear soiled underwear and bedding on their heads.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1352835/Nun-denies-cruelty-to-23-girls-in-care.html 

'Nun spat in my face on the street'

John Prior, who spent 14 years in St Joseph's Industrial School in Tralee and was the longest serving inmate of any industrial school in the county, was the first victim of institutional abuse to come forward and tell his story to the authorities.
Though his bravery prompted hundreds more to come forward it led to years of misery for John who was vilified for challenging the reputation of the church.

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/nun-spat-in-my-face-on-the-street-27383541.html 

Royal Commission calls for Indigenous survivors to share their story

Indigenous communities in the Top End are encouraged to learn more about the Royal Commission and share their story of child sexual abuse in an institution.
New community announcements in Yolngu Matha and Modern Tiwi are being aired on Northern Territory radio stations in Darwin and more than 40 remote locations from today. The announcements will air ahead of the Royal Commission’s first public hearing in Darwin commencing Monday 22 September.

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-release/1588/royal-commission-calls-for-indigenous-survivors-to-share-their-story 

Nuns Claim No Role in Irish Laundry Scandal

When I interviewed two Irish nuns in February it was a big story because it was the first time any nuns had commented on the abusive Magdalene Laundries run by four Catholic orders. Nothing since then makes a reconciliation with victims look likely soon
The sit-down interview took place over two nights, behind the walls of the convent where they both live. On the first night, Sister B opened the gates and directed me to her apartment where Sister A was waiting. I didn't meet any other members of their religious order as I walked through the convent.

http://womensenews.org/story/religion/130529/nuns-claim-no-role-in-irish-laundry-scandal#.VCX5GRYpeUl 

South Dakota A Peek Inside the Church's Drawers

The letters are casual, even chatty, from officials of St. Francis Mission, on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota, to Catholic Church superiors. 
The mission ran one of many boarding schools to which Native American parents were required to send their children from the late 1800s until the 1970s, when most of the institutions were closed down or transferred to tribal control.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-woodard/south-dakota-catholic-sex-abuse_b_850102.html 

Sex in a Cold Climate.

Once again the issue is topical, and once again it is in danger of a whitewash. In  March 1998 the Channel 4 Documentary Sex in a Cold Climate was shown on television to horrified viewers - some stunned, apparently, into disbelief.   
Yet the switchboards were jammed, and help-lines had to be set up to cope with the hundreds of calls received from former inmates of Irish Magdalen Asylums, many of whom now lived in England and were still suffering the effects of their incarceration. 

http://congravepress.com/article/ 

Do Penance or Perish: A study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland

It traces the development of the Female Penitentiary Movement in Britain and examines how, following the arrival of the Good Shepherd Sisters in 1848, 'Rescue Work' in Ireland underwent a change. Short-term lay refuges became long-term Magdalen Institutions, many of whose inmates were discouraged from leaving and were sometimes detained for life. 
Labouring in the adjoining laundries unpaid workers were subjected to penance, harsh discipline, silence and prayer. As prostitute numbers dwindled other 'fallen' women were targeted including unmarried mothers and wayward or abused girls - many being incarcerated by their families or priests.

http://congravepress.com/penance.php 

Demanding justice for women and children abused by Irish nuns

An inquiry last year into Ireland's Magdalene laundries, where for decades thousands of women were forced to work by nuns, found no evidence that workers were abused. But those who experienced life inside laundry walls angrily reject this, and are insisting that the nuns be held accountable.

"Oh my God! You know what? This brings back so much memories," 65-year-old Elizabeth Coppin says as she pushes open the door to the Convent Church next to the Magdalene laundry where she was sent to work for the nuns when she was 14.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29307705 

Orphanage abuse allegations

LINDA MOTTRAM: A group of women alleging abuse at the hands of Catholic nuns in Brisbane more than 50 years ago, is speaking out in the wake of other recent allegations of abuse within the Church.

One of the women alleges that she was raped by a nun, and along with another victim, beaten, forced to eat faeces and often starved.

http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s660495.htm 

Child migrants return to hear PM’s apology

Their wounds stretch thousands of miles and span decades of hurt and abuse. But Honoria Goldberg and Hugh McGowan hope the return trip they have made to Britain may help heal the pain of the past. 
They are just two of the 60 or so former child migrants invited “home” by Gordon Brown to hear the Government apology that will be made tomorrow for the programme that delivered vulnerable children into care homes and unpaid work on the other side of the world. 

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/child-migrants-return-to-hear-pm-s-apology-1.1008602 

Nun freed despite years of cruelty to children

A nun who was found guilty of repeated acts of cruelty against children in her care walked free from court yesterday after being admonished for her crimes. Several victims of Marie Docherty, also known as Sister Alphonso, reacted with disbelief and anger at the scale of the punishment.
A nun who was found guilty of repeated acts of cruelty against children in her care walked free from court yesterday after being admonished for her crimes. Several victims of Marie Docherty, also known as Sister Alphonso, reacted with disbelief and anger at the scale of the punishment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/nun-freed-despite-years-of-cruelty-to-children-698797.html 

Sister of Nazareth nun denies abuse claims

A nun who worked at a children's home in Londonderry has denied the physical, emotional and psychological abuse of children in her care.

Allegations against the witness, who is in her 70s, and cannot be identified, have been made by seven former pupils at Termonbacca home for boys and girls

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27218457 

Children in Nuns’ Care Forced to Wear Soiled Sheets.

While nuns are notorious for being tough, there is a line, and those at the Sisters of Nazareth definitely crossed it at care homes in Derry, Northern Ireland. As part of an ongoing investigation of possible abuses in child care services during the 20th century projected to last into the summer of next year, a public inquiry uncovered shocking reports of child abuse and horrific experiences from more than 400 people who had spent time at one of two homes run by the nuns. 
What they described was nothing short of appalling, and it speaks to a troubling need to audit long-term care facilities for children more closely.

http://www.care2.com/causes/children-in-nuns-care-forced-to-wear-soiled-sheets-eat-vomit.html 

Northern Ireland child abuse inquiry to hear victims of Derry nuns

Former residents of homes run by Sisters of Nazareth to give evidence at historical institutional abuse inquiry on Monday.  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 

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. For the most part, the Native students attended St. Ignatius Mission and the Ursuline Academy, both in the town of St. Ignatius, during the 1940s through the 1970s. 

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

Abuse by nuns can’t be dismissed as a ‘few bad people’

The evidence emerging from the case involving Church-run children’s homes in Northern Ireland has made for dreadfully harrowing reading, as it’s hard to imagine how any person, let alone one with a religious vocation, could treat innocent children in such a vile and menacing manner.
Since the general abuse scandal came to light, a great deal has been made of the processes that the Church has put into place to prevent this kind of thing happening again.

http://www.thecatholicuniverse.com/abuse-nuns-cant-dismissed-bad-people/ 

'I found Mum at the orphanage':

When she was just six days old, Suzanne Lambert was left at the Nazareth House orphanage in Newcastle upon Tyne. Here she describes how Nancy, a nanny at the orphanage and motherless herself, lovingly looked after her, forming a bond that was to last for life.
It was January 1930 and Christmas was over for another year. The father was smartly dressed in a suit and tie; his two young daughters, Nancy and Margaret, gripped his hands tightly. They had walked with their heads down against the snowstorm, only lifting them to see the stone sign carved with the words Nazareth House above the large black iron gates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2487790/How-I-Mum-orphanage.html 

Nazareth House, Aberdeen

Blaney was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh A former helper at a Nazareth House children’s home in Lasswade has been jailed for six years after he admitted sexually abusing two boys.

Peter Blaney, 53, from Kilsyth, Lanarkshire, was sentenced on 1 September, but a ban was placed on reporting until the end of the Sister Marie Docherty trial.

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/operation-greenlight/scotland/aberdeen-city/nazareth-house/ 

Nazareth: Orphans, Ghosts and a Saint

On May 3, 1900, Sister Mary Agnes Price became the postmaster of the newest post office in the Raleigh area.  The post office was called "Nazareth," named for the Catholic orphanage located near Bilyeu Street and Western Boulevard.  Sister Mary Agnes' brother, Father Thomas Frederick Price, founded the orphanage two years earlier.
Thomas Frederick Price was the first native North Carolinian to be ordained a Catholic priest in 1886.  As a priest, he was known to be energetic and full of zeal, even continuing his sermon and cracking jokes after being pelted with vegetables.  It was Father Price's idea to start an orphanage and seminary, and he was granted permission by Bishop Haid, the Vicar of the Apostolic Church of North Carolina.

http://raleighpublicrecord.org/featured/2009/04/27/nazareth-orphans-ghosts-and-a-saint/ 

Witness describes abuse by 'cruel' nuns

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has been told how one woman was cruelly treated by nuns and beaten during her time at Nazareth House in Londonderry.

She described how during her time there, some of the nuns were cruel and one nun would often beat her, hitting her with a belt she wore round her neck. She told the inquiry that she was beaten black and blue with a stick.

http://www.u.tv/News/Witness-describes-abuse-by-cruel-nuns/5881fcf9-643f-49d5-858b-d8535ff01f48

Man abused by nun files civil lawsuit

A man abused by a nun who was the principal of the Catholic grade school he attended on Milwaukee's south side filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the woman and her order, contending that the order was aware that she had abused another youth two years before she came to Milwaukee.
The nun, Sister Norma Giannini, 80, was released from the House of Correction last month after serving a one-year term. She had pleaded no contest and was found guilty of two felony counts of indecent behavior with a child. The plaintiff in the civil lawsuit, Gerald Kobs, was one of those victims.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/45504342.html 

Advocate for survivors and sexually abused children

Advocate for survivors and sexually abused children stands up to Roman Catholic Church.

Q: Steve, You have been a crusader fighting for justice for the children and adults sexually abused by the Roman Catholic Church.  How long have you been doing this and why did you start?

A: I have been working as an advocate for over twelve years.  On January 6, 2002 the Boston Globe broke the story of the cover up of sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston.  At that time I became a member of Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) a group whose mission is to reform the Catholic Church. VOTF helped people realize that Cardinal Bernard Law was responsible for the cover up in Boston and this increased the pressure on him to resign from the church.

http://catholicchurchabusebynunsandpriests.blogspot.co.nz/  

Woman beaten by nuns attacks probe into abuse

The embattled Laffoy Commission into child abuse sent a victim subjected to 15 years of beatings and humiliations by nuns for counselling to a nun.
May Henderson, who was sent to the notorious Goldenbridge orphanage at the age of two, described the commission's decision as 'the final insult after a childhood of abuse'. 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/14/childprotection.children 

Alleged Victims Recall Abuse by Nuns

Nine former students at a now-defunct school for the deaf claim in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that they were beaten, sexually molested and emotionally tormented by the nuns who ran the school.
The plaintiffs are suing at least 14 nuns, along with two priests, an athletic instructor and a former top official in the Boston archdiocese, according to their attorney, Mitchell Garabedian (search).

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/05/12/alleged-victims-recall-abuse-by-nuns/ 

Women who have lost their way

"A Magdalene Laundry survivor speaks out," reminds us that Magdalene Laundries were not only in Ireland but replicated all over the world.
Was the Irish State's recent apology for their complicity with the church in the enslavement of young women for years inside the notorious Magdalene Laundries, (or workhouses for girls, many of which were run by Good Shepherd nuns) - and subsequent calls for restorative justice for survivors - the impetus for the Good Shepherd Sisters in Australia putting a new spin on the history they share with Irish nuns?

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=15148&page=0 

Nuns 'battered boys stupid'

Man now aged 55 says he was caned on the feet by Sisters and sexually abused by older boys. John Heaney, 55, was caned on the feet by members of the order of the Sisters of Nazareth at St Joseph's in Termonbacca and said he suffered sexual abuse from older boys.
"Nuns were very good at raising their hands. All the Termonbacca boys have a flat spot on the back of their heads because they were battered stupid," he said.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/nuns-battered-boys-stupid-in-derry-childrens-home-victim-tells-child-abuse-inquiry-29912351.html 

Abuse by Catholic Nuns

I am now 55 and I know that this behavior no longer exists, but I went 8 years to a Catholic grade school that was basically brutal. Although I was very well educated, the amount of physical abuse that was inflcted, only on the boys, by the nuns was outrageous. 
I remember being beat for not bringing in 20 cents to join a some sort of society for the Blessed Virgin. I saw a classmate of mine beaten so badly that it left him with a permanent nervous facial tick.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070706150628AAp1ha7 

Abuse By Nuns

My name is Cait Finnegan and I’m a survivor of sexual abuse by a Sister of Mercy.
I grew up in Woodside/Sunnyside Queens, NYC and attended Queen of Angels elementary school where we were taught by the Sisters of Mercy.  Later I attended Mater Christi Diocesan High School in Astoria where the girls were taught by the Sisters of Mercy and the boys were taught by the Christian Brothers.

http://abusedbynuns.wordpress.com/about/ 

The Hidden Story of Sexual Abuse by Nuns

In February 1999, St. Mary’s Church in suburban Boston celebrated its 125th anniversary. Cardinal Bernard Law oversaw the festivities, including a mass where parish children were summoned to the altar for a special blessing. 

Sister Ann Daylor, a Dominican nun and St. Mary’s director of religious education, glowingly told a reporter that the celebration would launch a yearlong program in which the Catholic young’uns would learn “the importance of their place in the future of the parish.”

http://www.jimgoad.net/nunfucked.html 

Nun Pleads No Contest in Sex Abuse

A Roman Catholic nun pleaded no contest yesterday to two counts of indecent behavior with a child in connection with accusations from the 1960s when she was a principal and teacher at a Catholic school in Milwaukee.
The nun, Norma Giannini, 79, faces up to 20 years in prison for what prosecutors say was sexual abuse of two male students. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/us/13nun.html 

Man abused by nun files civil lawsuit

A man abused by a nun who was the principal of the Catholic grade school he attended on Milwaukee's south side filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the woman and her order, contending that the order was aware that she had abused another youth two years before she came to Milwaukee.
The nun, Sister Norma Giannini, 80, was released from the House of Correction last month after serving a one-year term. She had pleaded no contest and was found guilty of two felony counts of indecent behavior with a child. The plaintiff in the civil lawsuit, Gerald Kobs, was one of those victims.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/45504342.html 

Former deaf students were raped and beaten by nuns

Nine former students of the Boston School for the Deaf filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging they were raped and beaten by nuns at the now-defunct school.
The plaintiffs accused at least 13 nuns in the lawsuit, along with a priest and a male athletic instructor at the school and a former top official in the Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese, according to their attorney, Mitchell Garabedian.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4952862/ns/us_news/t/suit-alleges-student-abuse-nuns#.VBzPNhYpeUk 

Abuse in Care by Nuns

“I THOUGHT I was going to be drowned.” Terrifying thoughts for a girl of eight to endure.
But that was the case for young Deirdre O’Donoghue – now Deirdre Harper, a 55-year-old mother and grandmother, living in Birkby, Huddersfield. Deirdre was living in care in Belfast back in the 1960s.
She had her head held repeatedly under her bathwater by a Catholic nun, whose rosary beads banged against the side of the bath. Her crime? She had taken a bath at the wrong time – to avoid one in the Jeyes fluid used to clean the water.

http://answeringchristian.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/abuse-in-care-by-nuns/ 

horrific abuse of adoptees from Catholic nuns' homes

The documentary “This World: Ireland’s Lost Babies” unearths further truths about the 40,000 to 60,000 babies who were involuntarily given up for adoption, many to the United States, from Catholic mother and baby homes in Ireland, during the 1950s and 60s.
These babies were handed over to these unknown families. The children often chosen from a primitive mail order catalog and the Catholic Church often receiving a sizeable donation. They were selling babies by mail order to the people in the US.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Documentary-unearths-further-horrific-abuse-of-adoptees-from-Catholic-nuns-homes.html

Nuns did nothing to stop our abuse by older boys in home

A former resident of a Church-run children's home has told an inquiry how he was sexually abused by older boys while he slept.

He told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry that St Joseph's childre's home in Termonbacca, Co Londonderry, was "run on starvation".

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/nuns-did-nothing-to-stop-our-abuse-by-older-boys-in-home-victim-tells-inquiry-29966706.html 

Nuns and their Wicked History

Nuns would savagely punish us for the slightest thing, WE WOULD BE LAID over a bed in the dormitory or just spread-eagled BY three or 4 people (other older boys); if four was notenough to subdue you they would get some more boys to hold you down, then flogged you with their thick leather straps which were shoved in there long pockets of there habits.
Welfare INSPECTORS would visit the orphanage from time to time, children who were still bruised or scarred were kept out of sight. We knew what would happen to us if we told. Fear AND INTIMIDATION was a deterrent to us all. 

http://www.forgottenaustralians.com/nuns/nuns.html 

Philomena author on scandal of Ireland's 60,000 babies 'sold' by nuns

The film Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, tells the true story of a mother’s quest to find the son taken from her by the Catholic Church in 1950s Ireland.
She was one of an estimated 60,000 women whose babies were given to new parents in exchange for cash donations.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/philomena-author-scandal-irelands-60000-4260186

Years later, some charge sexual abuse by nuns

A half-century after his Catholic school boyhood, John Kerrigan says he is still haunted by the memories: a figure draped in the mantle of the church, finding sexual gratification through his fearful 12-year-old body.
Though his story echoes countless others in the ever-widening church molestation scandal, it differs in that the alleged abuser was not a priest 

http://www.robinwashington.com/articles/articles_nuns.html 

Nun crimes in Louisiana, USA: Bonnie Richard's Story

The Vatican is being exposed for what it is: The most criminal organization in existence. The crimes that they have managed to commit against humanity for 2000 years via its criminal priests, nuns, and evil religious leaders are now being discovered worldwide, as it is written that any day now, the Catholic Church will go up in flames and be destroyed forever, as it is the mother of all abominations on Earth.
The Protect Your Children Foundation is documenting and exposing all of its crimes worldwide, alerting entire nations of the dangers that the Catholic Church poses to our children in our communities, as they have been implementing crime schemes of rape, torture, starvation, human experiments, abuse, exploitation and more in its religious institutions, while claiming to 'help children'. The Vatican has utilized its false appearance of mercy, claiming they are representatives of Christ, when in fact, they do this to gain trust and commit crimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBO-qWF5sxY 

Catholic Nuns, Child Abuse and Vows

It’s time to acknowledge that there is something sick to the core of the Catholic Church in its relationship to children. It’s time to close it down. It’s time to sue it to death. Let’s leave a better world to our children by eliminating a destructive spirit.
Something in the essence of either the Church’s philosophy or its execution is terribly flawed. Its most influential positions attract disturbed individuals who then act out forms of rage against children, often expressing it sexually.

http://firetender.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/catholic-nuns-child-abuse-and-vows/ 

Rotherham child-sex victim confronts her alleged abuser in the street

Rotherham child-sex victim confronts her alleged abuser in the street but SHE is arrested by a van load of police. The woman was shocked when she saw the man walking through the town's centre on Friday and decided to challenge him over the allegations.

But she was tackled by two police officers and pushed up against a wall during her 'thuggish' arrest, a witness has said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2756140/Rotherham-child-abuse-victim-confronts-alleged-abuser-street-SHE-arrested-van-load-police.html 

Police step up enquiry into Shefford boys' home claims

AFTER a 16 year investigation by this newspaper there is real hope of justice over allegations of sexual and physical abuse at a former Catholic boys home.
The police announced this week that they are reviewing and stepping up the investigation into the former orphanage, St Francis Boys Home in Shefford. It is to be led by a senior officer who will have a team focusing entirely on this case. They will be reviewing all complaints and evidence.

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Police-step-enquiry-Shefford-boys-home-claims/story-22916552-detail/story.html 

Say Sorry; This is a truly harrowing tale

This is a truly harrowing tale, written in the first person by a woman born out of wedlock to live her childhood as an orphan, abused, unloved. Ann Thompson was born in Christchurch in 1941 to a 16-year-old mother who placed her baby in a Catholic orphanage.
What follows is a sadly familiar tale of cruelty, neglect, torment and tears – all triggered by the abuse of nuns there to care for her. 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/culture/books/people/2949635/Say-Sorry 

Victim wants church to take responsibility for abuse

A man haunted by childhood memories of sexual abuse at a Catholic orphanage in Christchurch just wants someone to acknowledge there was wrongdoing.
He "f***ed up" his life for 25 years living with the burden of the abuse's trauma, and today, eight years after speaking out to police and sitting through legal negotiations with a religious Order, he is angry, feeling no one has taken responsibility despite an out-of-court settlement.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637322 

When child cruelty reigned

Nazareth House was a great grim building, its brick walls rising from the Brisbane suburb of Wynnum North, softened only by a sparse cluster of palms.
Inside, its pious austerity moved one Queensland child-care officer to report: "The design of the building itself is along the lines of a monastery, with cloisters, crucifixes, statues etc in great abundance.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=2352086 

The forgotten children

SENT to Australia for a better life, thousands of British 'orphans' ended up being beaten and starved. Ten -year-old Yvonne Radzevicius had no idea what was happening: “I distinctly remember us waiting
in a big tin shed, roped off in sections, like cattle. Through the door of the shed you could see part of the name of the ship, New Australia.” She had just been taken from a convent in the Scottish city of Glasgow, the place she’d lived her entire childhood, and was about to embark on a journey towards a whole new life.

http://www.news.com.au/news/the-forgotten-children/story-fn6c7l60-1226036496698 

Children 'treated as baby convicts'

Children in institutions in Northern Ireland were exported to Australia like "baby convicts", a witness has told a public inquiry into historical abuse.

The Sisters of Nazareth order of Catholic nuns was responsible for the removal of 111 child migrants aged as young as five before and after the Second World War, some of whom faced grave sexual and physical violence after arrival. Another 20 were sent by other institutions.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/children-treated-as-baby-convicts-30551351.html 

Nazareth House care home abuse descended into hell

They spoke of the physical, mental and sexual abuse they were subjected to as children living in the home.
A female witness described to the inquiry how she was sexually abused by a nun when she was aged just three or four. The woman, now in her 50s, claimed she had been sexually and physically abused by nuns and older girls and said she had prayed she would never have children herself.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/nazareth-house-care-home-abuse-descended-into-hell-inquiry-is-told-30001273.html#disqus_thread 

Woman 'destroyed by abuse' in Nazareth House

Woman 'destroyed by abuse' in Nazareth House children's home waives right to anonymity. A woman "destroyed" by sexual and physical abuse in a children's home run by nuns has become the first witness to waive her right to anonymity in the hope that other victims will come forward.

Before the Historical Abuse Inquiry sitting began yesterday Kate Walmsley (57) said she had come to give evidence to make sure no boy or girl is ever abused at an institution in the future. 

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/woman-destroyed-by-abuse-in-nazareth-house-childrens-home-waives-right-to-anonymity-30005770.html#disqus_thread

Scandal of the orphans lost in unmarked graves

An investigation by this newspaper has found there are no burial records for children who lost their lives while in the care of the Sisters of Nazareth, which operated four homes in Scotland and at least 17 south of the Border.
However, several other countries - including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and now Northern Ireland - have opted to hold public inquiries to help expose the perpetrators and their crimes.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/461336/Scandal-of-the-orphans-lost-in-unmarked-graves 

Campaigner accuses nuns: NZ

A high-profile Auckland businessman, who has spent years fighting "justice campaigns", claims he was abused as a child by nuns at Nazareth House in Christchurch and is seeking compensation.
Dermot Nottingham developed a public profile in the 1990s after exposing odometer tampering on imported cars.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3582479 

Dungannon woman breaks silence in Historical Abuse Inquiry

A former Dungannon woman who was sent to Australia from a care home when she was a child has told the North’s Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry that she suffered feelings of “abandonment and isolation”.
The 63-year-old woman was transported to Australia in 1955 when she was aged four from Nazareth House home, Belfast, which was run by the Sisters of Nazareth. 

http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/news/tyrone-news/dungannon-woman-breaks-silence-in-historical-abuse-inquiry-1-6292883 

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 

Witness seeks apology for child migrants

A woman who was sent from a Catholic home in Northern Ireland to Australia in 1947 has told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry there is a need for an apology for the child migration scheme. 
The woman, who was at Nazareth house in Londonderry when she was transported, told the inquiry that when she first arrived in the country she was told she was there to "fill the empty cradles of Australia".

http://www.u.tv/News/Witness-seeks-apology-for-child-migrants/aa750b79-795c-4ff8-a0b6-3e0d37dc389b

Child migrant 'sexually abused' in Australia

A 70-year-old former child migrant from a Catholic-run home in Londonderry has said he was sexually abused after being shipped to Australia.

Des McDaid, who has waived his right to anonymity, was giving evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29030746 

Sisters of Nazareth congregation admits abuse at homes

Why Don't you Address the abuse in the Nazareth house orphanages worldwide.???

The Sisters of Nazareth congregation has admitted that abuse did take place at its homes in Londonderry.

Sister Brenda McCall, representing the congregation, told the Historical Abuse Inquiry (HIA) that some of the evidence of former residents had been "very shocking and harrowing for us". 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27482039 

Historical Abuse Inquiry hears Sisters of Nazareth nuns 'were almost psychotic'

Nuns' treatment of children at a residential care home was "bordering on the psychotic", Northern Ireland's Historical Abuse Inquiry has been told.

Sisters of Nazareth nuns thumped and kicked children at Termonbacca, the first witness to give evidence said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-25929866 

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.

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

Irish children tell of abuse at hands of adoptive parents

Some Irish children sent to America for adoption in the 1950s and 60s were sexually abused by parents who weren’t properly vetted by the Catholic Church.
They have now revealed their horror stories in a new television documentary made by the journalist who wrote the Philomena story.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-children-tell-of-abuse-at-hands-of-American-adoptive-parents.html

' Nazareth children were wronged, admits nun

'All money in the world can't make up for what we took...' Nazareth children were wronged, admits nun... Address all of the catholic church Nazareth House orphanages worldwide...  We are still suffering... because of the abuse your order of nuns... did to us little children... we have carried our cross of shame for years... our pain is so deep... that we trust no one... Ann

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/all-money-in-the-world-cant-make-up-for-what-we-took-nazareth-children-were-wronged-admits-nun-30580973.html 

Abuse by priests, nuns alleged at S.D. orphanage

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Two dozen former residents of an American Indian orphanage run by the Roman Catholic Church are suing the Sioux Falls diocese, alleging sexual and physical abuse by priests and nuns decades ago.
Some of the victims, who are identified in the 58-page lawsuit filed last week only by their initials, were as young as 4 years old during the alleged assaults at the former Tekakwitha Orphanage in Sisseton, about 150 miles north of Sioux Falls, between the 1940s and 1970s.

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/south-dakota/article_71a2745e-a1a5-11df-9601-001cc4c002e0.html 

Nuns 'abused hundreds of children'

Former residents of the Catholic Nazareth order's homes say they suffered appalling, systematic cruelty. Special investigation by Barry Wood. FOR MORE than 100 years, the Poor Sisters of Nazareth cared for children in the order's dozens of homes across Britain. Orphans, abandoned babies and children deemed uncontrollable or accused of petty crimes were all put in the hands of the nuns who, to the outside world, epitomised kindness and compassion.

But today, many of those who were in the sisters' care have come forward to claim that, behind the locked doors of Nazareth House (all the homes had this name), the nuns maintained a ruthless regime. Beatings and acts of extreme cruelty were commonplace, they say, and together with the spartan existence in the home, gave them lives of utter misery.

http://vaticancrimesinaustralia.blogspot.co.nz/2010/12/nuns-abused-hundreds-of-children.html 

'All we want is justice and truth'

In Termonbacca I became a number. I wasn’t Jon McCourt. I wasn’t a human being. I was just a number. Everyone was given a number when they arrived in that place.
“It sounds hard to believe but it was years before I knew that my brothers were in the home as well. They kept us in separate parts of the institution and we never actually met. It was all about control.
“There was some horrific physical abuse that went on in there. Once I had my skull bashed in by a nun with a wooden towel-holder. That was the kind of thing that happened and sexual abuse by some of the older boys who were put in charge at times was also commonplace. You had all these boys in a dorm with just one nun supposedly supervising them. The nun was in a small room in the corner from where she couldn’t possibly see what was going on.”

http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/20953 

A life unlived: 35 years of slavery in a Magdalene Laundry

THE TREATMENT OF women incarcerated in Magdalene Laundries – and the level of State involvement in these Church-run institutions – has been highlighted yet again this month. There was disappointment among survivors and relatives of those kept in the Laundries when it was announced that a State committee’s final report into the matter would be delayed until the end of the year.

http://www.thejournal.ie/magdalene-laundry-true-story-margaret-bullen-samantha-long-614350-Sep2012/ 

Catholic nun 'tipped off' paedophile priest

FORMER police officer and National party MP Troy Grant has made explosive claims about cover-ups of child sex abuse within the Catholic church, including deliberate actions by a nun to tip off a paedophile priest.
Speaking to media after giving evidence at a special commission of inquiry in Newcastle this morning, Mr Grant said that while he never encountered a "Catholic mafia" within the police force, there was certainly collusion within the clergy to hide serious sex offences.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sham-and-shame-abuse-inquiry-designed-to-fail/story-e6freuy9-1226637157285?nk=4a53a600ca593d34e03e54b761273e87 

Complaints of Sex Abuse by Nuns Begin to Emerge

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 

U.S. nuns won't let survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic sisters address annual conference

This past week, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 95 percent of the orders of Catholic sisters in the U.S., held its annual meeting in New Orleans. The main topic on the agenda was the Vatican's current investigation of the doctrinal deviations they believe may be rampant among the sisters who were freed of strict control in dress and living arrangements following the Second Vatican Councilin the early 1960s.
Nuns, it seems, are no longer as obedient as the Vatican would like. One sister I know is a clinic escort at her local reproductive health clinic; others are active in gay and lesbian ministries and one, close to 90, has been a leader in the movement for sex worker rights. They fasted for the Equal Rights Amendment, spoke out in favor of women priests and choice, marched with Martin Luther King, and thought John Paul II was a disaster. 

http://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.co.nz/2010/11/us-nuns-wont-let-survivors-of-sexual.html 

Focus of Catholic sexual abuse suits now includes nuns

A Belgian foster home asked potential victims of sexual abuse to come forward on Monday after a man said nuns had abused him there as a child in the 1960s.
The anonymous Belgian, now in his fifties, told local media on Monday that he was abused by nuns for several years from the age of five while he lived at the Stella Maris home in the town of Kortrijk, western Flanders.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/03/oukwd-uk-belgium-abuse-idAFTRE7022DH20110103 

Belgian man alleges abuse by nuns at foster home

A Belgian foster home asked potential victims of sexual abuse to come forward on Monday after a man said nuns had abused him there as a child in the 1960s.
The anonymous Belgian, now in his fifties, told local media on Monday that he was abused by nuns for several years from the age of five while he lived at the Stella Maris home in the town of Kortrijk, western Flanders.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/03/oukwd-uk-belgium-abuse-idAFTRE7022DH20110103 

Quebec `Orphans' Were Classified Retarded For Subsidies, Suits Claim

MONTREAL - In a dark episode of Quebec's postwar history, as many as 8,000 children were falsely declared mentally retarded and then mentally, physically and sexually abused by nuns who ran the orphanages where they lived, according to hundreds who have claimed to be victims.
The alleged misdeeds occurred in the 1940s and '50s, when the Roman Catholic Church dominated Canada's French-speaking province, and they remained a secret for 40 years. But in the last year, the orphans - as they are called here, although most were illegitimate children - have begun speaking out.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930402&slug=1693917 

Nuns admit sexual abuse of children took place under their care

A Catholic order of nuns has admitted that emotional abuse and neglect took place in its residential homes in Northern Ireland. 

The Sisters of Nazareth have already acknowledged and apologised for physical and sexual attacks which occurred within their properties, a focus of the UK’s largest ever institutional child abuse public inquiry.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nuns-admit-sexual-abuse-children-3574925 

Catholic officials knew of teacher's abuse, court files indicate

The Catholic-school teacher had a pre-teen student pinned to the ground in his Baltimore classroom, the girl's blouse open and her chest exposed when the doorknob suddenly turned and the school principal — a nun — burst in.
The screaming girl thought she was about to be rescued, according to court records that describe the scene at the Catholic Community Middle School in Locust Point. But Sister Eileen Weisman, who had a key to the room, merely chastised the teacher, John Joseph Merzbacher, for locking the door. 

 http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-11-25/news/bs-md-archdiocese-merzbacher-20121124_1_john-joseph-merzbacher-sister-eileen-weisman-catholic-community-middle-school

Nuns admit to past mistakes in children’s homes

An independent investigation into allegations of abuse at children’s homes run by the Swiss Ingenbohl Sisters of Mercy has found serious failings by the Roman Catholic nuns but has discounted the worst allegations involving deaths in care.   
The excessive punishment doled out by some sisters was mainly due to the “systemic misery” of the homes, where both children and carers experienced hardship, the commission of experts found in its review of the decades from 1928 to the 1970s.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/nuns-admit-to-past-mistakes-in-children-s-homes/34808078 

Torture the Little Children? The Catholic Church Says It’s Not Responsible

At a United Nations hearing the Vatican tries to turn the moral question of whether child abuse is torture into a legal debate about jurisdictions.

This may come as a huge surprise to many Catholics, but the Holy See is claiming it doesn’t really bear legal responsibility for how they or even their priests behave. Too good to be true? Actually, too horrible to be believed. What the Vatican is claiming this week before a United Nations panel is that, really, the question of priests sexually abusing little kids is a matter for local law enforcement. And, no, the physical pain and mental anguish inflicted on children by pedophile prelates should not be called “torture,” at least as defined by the U.N.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/06/torture-the-little-children-the-catholic-church-says-it-s-not-responsible.html