We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s
xerxes @ Mon Aug 27, 2018 8:42 pm
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It was a late summer afternoon, Sally Dale recalled, when the boy was thrown through the fourth-floor window.
“He kind of hit, and— ” she placed both hands palm-down before her. Her right hand slapped down on the left, rebounded up a little, then landed again.
For just a moment, the room was still. “Bounced?” one of the many lawyers present asked. “Well, I guess you’d call it — it was a bounce,” she replied. “And then he laid still.”
Sally, who was speaking under oath, tried to explain it. She started again. “The first thing I saw was looking up, hearing the crash of the window, and then him going down, but my eyes were still glued—.” She pointed up at where the broken window would have been and then she pointed at her own face and drew circles around it. “That habit thing, whatever it is, that they wear, stuck out like a sore thumb.”
A nun was standing at the window, Sally said. She straightened her arms out in front of her. “But her hands were like that.”
There were only two people in the yard, she said: Sally herself and a nun who was escorting her. In a tone that was still completely bewildered, she recalled asking, Sister?
Sister took hold of Sally’s ear, turned her around, and walked her back to the other side of the yard. The nun told her she had a vivid imagination. We are going to have to do something about you, child.....
“He kind of hit, and— ” she placed both hands palm-down before her. Her right hand slapped down on the left, rebounded up a little, then landed again.
For just a moment, the room was still. “Bounced?” one of the many lawyers present asked. “Well, I guess you’d call it — it was a bounce,” she replied. “And then he laid still.”
Sally, who was speaking under oath, tried to explain it. She started again. “The first thing I saw was looking up, hearing the crash of the window, and then him going down, but my eyes were still glued—.” She pointed up at where the broken window would have been and then she pointed at her own face and drew circles around it. “That habit thing, whatever it is, that they wear, stuck out like a sore thumb.”
A nun was standing at the window, Sally said. She straightened her arms out in front of her. “But her hands were like that.”
There were only two people in the yard, she said: Sally herself and a nun who was escorting her. In a tone that was still completely bewildered, she recalled asking, Sister?
Sister took hold of Sally’s ear, turned her around, and walked her back to the other side of the yard. The nun told her she had a vivid imagination. We are going to have to do something about you, child.....
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs
Two warnings about this article:
It's a long read.
Tears will likely impair your reading as it did mine, reading about how supposedly men and women of God beat, tortured and molested young children. Anger will follow as you realise that none of the vile people who did this will face any kind of justice in this plane of existence.
Thanos @ Mon Aug 27, 2018 8:59 pm
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…religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow...
- Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Hitchens
Tricks @ Mon Aug 27, 2018 10:58 pm
Holy shit. I just finished reading it.... I don't even know what to say.
housewife @ Mon Aug 27, 2018 11:36 pm
The quote was enough to know I’m not reading the article. The few things I have read or heard are more than enough for me.
Tricks @ Mon Aug 27, 2018 11:55 pm
housewife housewife:
The quote was enough to know I’m not reading the article. The few things I have read or heard are more than enough for me.
The saddest part, is that quote... it's not even the worst of it. Not even close. This is a brand of evil that is startling. I can't even comprehend the reporter being able to sit and have a conversation with these monsters. It makes you wonder how many "orphanages" have history like this one does, and no one knows about it. How many Diocese participated in institutions like this. People this Christianity or Catholicism left barbarism and cruelty that we see in the middle east behind hundreds of years ago. They couldn't be further from the truth and this demonstrates it perfectly.
Strutz @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 12:54 am
I read through most of it... unfortunately.
Horrific.
Inhuman.
I hope all those bastards are rotting in hell, or will.
DrCaleb @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 6:18 am
Tricks Tricks:
Holy shit. I just finished reading it.... I don't even know what to say.
Now imagine the children were native, and society doesn't care what happens to them.
That was the Residential School system.
Robair @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 6:57 am
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Tricks Tricks:
Holy shit. I just finished reading it.... I don't even know what to say.
Now imagine the children were native, and society doesn't care what happens to them.
That was the Residential School system.
You're supposed to drop the mic after a post like that.
Tricks @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:00 am
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Tricks Tricks:
Holy shit. I just finished reading it.... I don't even know what to say.
Now imagine the children were native, and society doesn't care what happens to them.
That was the Residential School system.
fifeboy @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:06 am
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Tricks Tricks:
Holy shit. I just finished reading it.... I don't even know what to say.
Now imagine the children were native, and society doesn't care what happens to them.
That was the Residential School system.
Well said!
BartSimpson @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:22 am
I recall my own brief experience at a Catholic school and the scar on my finger and then I wonder at how it must have felt to be trapped with your tormentors 24/7/365 and being forced to stay even after you turn 18.
I'm amazed that none of the orphans ever killed one of these fucking degenerates.
Tricks @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:43 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
I recall my own brief experience at a Catholic school and the scar on my finger and then I wonder at how it must have felt to be trapped with your tormentors 24/7/365 and being forced to stay even after you turn 18.
I'm amazed that none of the orphans ever killed one of these fucking degenerates.
I'm amazed that none of the orphans ever killed one of these fucking degenerates.
Towards the end one of the people reportedly told a nun that if she lays a hand on him again he's going to "Knock her fucking head off".
I'm not all that surprised, when you've been receiving this abuse since you were a child, the fear probably overrides most other things. They are indoctrinated to not resist or fight back.
CharlesAnthony @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:53 am
The Answer: Confiscate ALL church property upon which ANY victim set foot and give it ALL to the victims and or their family.
Do what you wilt with the perps and or any and or all benefactors.
Strutz @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:27 am
Tricks Tricks:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
I recall my own brief experience at a Catholic school and the scar on my finger and then I wonder at how it must have felt to be trapped with your tormentors 24/7/365 and being forced to stay even after you turn 18.
I'm amazed that none of the orphans ever killed one of these fucking degenerates.
I'm amazed that none of the orphans ever killed one of these fucking degenerates.
Towards the end one of the people reportedly told a nun that if she lays a hand on him again he's going to "Knock her fucking head off".
I'm not all that surprised, when you've been receiving this abuse since you were a child, the fear probably overrides most other things. They are indoctrinated to not resist or fight back.
It makes you wonder how they were able to function once they were out of these prisons and out in the world as adults.
Strutz @ Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:28 am
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Now imagine the children were native, and society doesn't care what happens to them.
That was the Residential School system.
That was the Residential School system.
Good point.