to the priest and nuns... our mind was not ours... they could do
anything they wanted... to do with your mind and your body... you were
just a toy to them... a rag doll... in which they could rip you to
threads... when every they wanted to... you were their puppet... and boy
did they pull your strings... as hard as they could... they destroyed
your mind... body and soul... you were left with nothing... so you
started to believe... the bad things... that they told you about yourself...
you went further into yourself... and stopped talking... and kept to
yourself... because to talk... you would be thrashed... but you soon
saw... that the other girls were treated differently from you... WHY...
because I was a pretty girl... and they tried to make me feel ugly
inside... and it worked... they took everything away from me... and
mostly my self-worth... I had no self esteem... I believed everything
thing that they said to me... I was broken and I can not be fixed... Ann
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Boys forced into cold pool to bathe to save Mount Cashel money on hot water, civil trial told. Some 60 years ago, two boys without winter coats dragged a
cardboard box of meagre belongings through the snow together after being
expelled from Mount Cashel.
Neither spoke to each other about sexual abuse nor could they fathom
ever being listened to about it, they told The Telegram outside court
Monday in St. John’s.