A left-handed relative of mine lived there.
The nuns carried big thick yard sticks, and by the end of each day, and until a day or two later, he was no longer left-handed.
“Madonna Manor, the Catholic orphanage”
(Not picking just on Catholics here, Protestants are no better, its “organized religion”)
” “A reverent place,” she sighed, “but it’s also a crime scene.””
A dichotomy. In this case, it CAN’T be BOTH!
“Sometimes they wore masks to conceal [their] (the clergy) identity so you didn’t know who raped you”
““They’d bring you over to the Dark Tower – that’s what we called the church, the cathedral they had on the property. Running away from Madonna Manor you just wanted to be someplace else. You’re still going to an abusive environment, but it was the horrors of being sexually assaulted, like the devil was in the building.”
” Sister Martin Marie began “tying me by the genitals and nearly suffocating me to sexually pleasure her between the legs”. “She liked to sit on my face till I couldn’t breathe,””
“Between 2010 and 2020, the archdiocese settled more than 130 sex abuse claims, totaling $11.7m, in many cases requiring victims to sign confidentiality agreements”
AND THESE PEOPLE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MEN/WOMEN OF GOD!!!!!
Organized religion! Who needs it?
Talk directly to God yourself, He will hear you.
Read/study His word.
PRAY!
Parents abandon kids, relatives wont take them in. Today we abort them so instead, so merciful. High and mighty we child killers feel reading about abusers. The abusers are us, and Hamas, too.
I’m reading more and more stories about this kind of stuff, not just with catholics.
On a side note, seems like all the stories from the 80s-90s about devil worshipping/ child sex abuse that were discredited, were in fact true. Lots of pedos and groups of pedos, pretending to be something they are not, just to get access to children. All the stores seem to involve the same sadistic theme of pedophilia, torture/abuse, satanism. Wouldn’t surprise me if the catholic church is loaded with them. Satanists want places of power and symbolic power and access to the innocent for ritual abuse.
It is horrendous that this happened, ever. It is even more horrendous that the higher-ups covered it up.
At a certain point, blaming the APA guidelines (saying that psychiatrists could cure pedophilia, etc.) just isn’t enough.
Our Lady of Sorrows parish, Farmington MI, was full of pedos. Head priest was finally arrested. But some of them didn’t, and even “volunteered” at the local Boy Scouts.
They crossed my life in a bad way, and the lives of some I knew. One of my friends shot himself in the head from it.
The Catholic religion also functions as a giant support group for molesters. From Decons to the Pope.
It may be an unpopular opinion but even abuse claims should be subject to statute of limitations. I am not dismissing the real horror of abuse sexual or otherwise. I am being honest about human nature and how it is difficult to mount a defense against memories.
There are statute of limitation laws for a reason. You can be sure a portion of those bringing claims were sought out by attorneys. Their claims may be valid or they could be matter of convenience relying on imperfect memories, dead witnesses, and allegations which are hard to investigate.
Ping
Lawsuit in progress