Archbishop Conti accused of calling child abuse victims ‘the opposition’

A senior figure in the Catholic Church has been accused of orchestrating a “hostile rejection” of claims nuns were involved in the abuse of children. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry is currently hearing evidence relating to alleged abuse at four former children’s homes run by the Sisters of Nazareth. Yesterday a lawyer for the victims said Archbishop Emeritus Mario Conti had dismissed the allegations at Nazareth House in Aberdeen while bishop in the city, even allegedly referring to survivors as “the opposition”.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/archbishop-conti-accused-of-calling-child-abuse-victims-the-opposition-1-4729804 

Nun told young girl the ‘devil was inside”

Nun told young girl the ‘devil was inside” her as she was beaten at children’s home, inquiry hears The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard claims of beatings at the hands of nuns, force-feeding to the point of vomiting, being locked in a dark room and being made to bathe in disinfectant. Children were also told that nobody wanted them, the inquiry heard, while one witness said she was told “the devil was inside me” as a nun hit her. “The psychological damage I saw people suffering … it’s unbelievable,” another witness told the hearing in Edinburgh.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2551156/nuns-abuse-devil-sisters-of-nazareth-child-abuse-inquiry/ 

Hundreds of Sisters of Nazareth Catholic order complaints received

Police have received complaints from more than 300 people against the Sisters of Nazareth Catholic order which ran children's homes in Scotland until the 1980s. The Scottish child abuse inquiry has begun hearing evidence in connection with the homes they ran in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayrshire. Police received 308 complaints against the Sisters of Nazareth. They related to their child care homes between 1934 and 1984. The complaints are about 194 people associated with institutions run by the Sisters of Nazareth.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-43881629 

New Zealand State abuse inquiry fails to protect all survivors - Shine

An airy Silence from the churches... and that is what they do best... the man and women who were raped and abused as children... in the hell hole church orphanages in New Zealand have NO ONE... this inquiry is for state only... as always just like when we were children... ever one turn their backs on us... I know that I am the devil's daughter... I know that I was not educated... I know that no one wanted me... and it is still the same with what is happening to us now... walk in my shoes each day... have my nightmares of torment every night... waking up screaming and hitting my husband... because I am running away from the nuns... priest and the older girls in my dreams...

don't judge me because I was bought up in the catholic church orphanage... I was stolen from my mother's arms... and we are still been trodden on by the New Zealand Government... and they are just looking after THEIR OWN... Where is Jesus in your lives today?...

Please listen to all of the children of yesterday... who were raped and abused in the churches... Please listen to the cries of the children... we have called on deaf ears long enough... help us before we leave this world... like so many men and women before us... are our lives not worth it as they were not... when we were helpless children without love and care... our hearts bleed within... because we know that no one cares or will take our hands... just for a little while... so we know that there is little hope... as lest some one out there cares... for the unwanted children Boys and Girls... of the catholic church orphanages and homes... along with the other churches so we can start to heal...
Ann Thompson = Ann Free Spirit

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 State abuse inquiry fails to protect all survivors - Shine Friday, 27 April 2018, 4:19 pm Press Release: Shine Lawyers “NZ royal commission into historical abuse fails to protect all survivors” says shine lawyers abuse law manager, Lisa Flynn. New Zealand law firm Shine Lawyers, in partnership with its Australian Abuse team, strongly supports the establishment of the Royal Commission into Historical Abuse in State Care, commencing in New Zealand. The local law firm, however, has urged the Commission to consider ALL survivors of abuse in their Terms of Reference and not just those in State Care.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1804/S00299/state-abuse-inquiry-fails-to-protect-all-survivors-shine.htm 

Sisters of Nazareth: Nuns held to account for decades of CHILD ABUSE

The same order of nuns abused me... and the other men and women in Christchurch New Zealand... and we still have not got acknowledgment to the abuse... they still have control over some of us... because they have a hold over our family homes... I will not pay these evil nuns for abusing me... they call it charity and they are collecting interest from us... this is called usury = English meaning Loan Shark... Ann                                                                           =============================================                                                           

A CATHOLIC order has been accused of lacking compassion after complaining of a “difficult year” as they are finally held to account for decades of child abuse. The second phase of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will begin examining the shameful history of the Sisters of Nazareth on Tuesday, with hearings expected to continue until the early summer. Hundreds of survivors have come forward to give evidence about beatings, cruelty and sexual assaults at the order’s four Scottish orphanages in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/949466/child-abuse-scotland-sisters-nazareth-inquiry-survivors-brenda-banks 

Two brothers convicted of raping two of their sisters

I blamed myself because I was not strong enough to stop you but it wasn’t my fault’ I blamed myself because I was not strong enough to stop you but it wasn’t my fault’ Two Co Meath brothers have been convicted of raping two of their sisters 30 years ago. A jury at the Central Criminal Court convicted one of the men on Tuesday. His brother was convicted after a trial last January and jailed for 7½ years earlier this month. The cases could not be reported on until the second trial had finished. The men, who are both in their late 40s, cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of the victims.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/two-brothers-convicted-of-raping-two-of-their-sisters-1.3442294 

'Your family don't want you' Child sent to Australia by nun was sexually abused by priests

Christopher Booth told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was abused by priests at the care home he was moved to in Tasmania. A nun told a boy, “Your family don’t want you, your country doesn’t want you, you’re just garbage”, as she informed him he was to be sent to Australia, an inquiry heard yesterday. Christopher Booth, now 77, who waived his right to anonymity, told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was then sexually abused by priests at the care home he was moved to in Tasmania.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/your-family-dont-want-you-12429090 

Child abuse inquiry hears Nazareth House nun told Aberdeen boy he was ‘garbage’

A nun told a schoolboy “your family doesn’t want you, your country doesn’t want you” as she informed him he was to be sent from Aberdeen to Australia, an inquiry has heard. A witness told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was 11 when he was forced to migrate overseas in the 1950s. The man accused the British government at the time of robbing him of a family, a country and an education.

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/inquiry-hears-nun-told-boy-he-was-garbage/ 

Nuns sent 11-year-old Scottish boy to Australia

A nun told a boy “your family doesn’t want you, your country doesn’t want you” as she informed him he was to be sent from Scotland to Australia. A witness told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry hearing in Edinburgh he was 11 when he was forced to migrate overseas in the 1950s. He was then sexually abused by priests at the care home he was moved to in Tasmania, the inquiry was told. The man accused the British government at the time of robbing him of a family, a country and an education.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/nuns-sent-11-year-old-scottish-boy-to-australia-1-4730279 

Nun told boy in her care he was 'garbage'

A nun told a boy he was "garbage" and was being sent to Australia from Scotland because "your family doesn't want you, your country doesn't want you", an inquiry has heard. A witness told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was 11 when he was forced to emigrate in the 1950s. He was then sexually abused by priests at a care home in Tasmania.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-43899641 

Pensioner receives call from long-lost daughter after Liveline appeal

A pensioner who was raped as a child by an Irish nun has now reconnected with the daughter he never knew he had, thanks to a Liveline appeal. William Hayes appeared on Liveline on Monday to tell is tale of abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church, and how he was raped by an Irish nun in the UK while he was in his early teens. Hayes, now in his 70s, says he was abused and raped by a nun from when he was 12 years old, and had a child with a nun, who subsequently left the order because of this, when he was just 14.

https://www.buzz.ie/news/pensioner-call-long-lost-daughter-liveline-appeal-281598 

Ex-Catholic brother jailed for Vic abuse

A Catholic order allowed a religious brother who sexually abused students to keep teaching in Melbourne and moved him to other schools after a complaint was made against him. Former De La Salle brother Frank Terrence Keating, 75, was on Friday sentenced to five years and three months in jail for indecently assaulting eight school boys between 1969 and 1977. Victorian County Court judge Gregory Lyon said Keating was able to continue abusing students after that period because the De La Salle order did not take any further action against him.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/04/20/10/28/ex-catholic-brother-jailed-for-vic-abuse 

Whose life is it anyway?

When adoption is reduced to self-fulfillment for adults, children in need lose There’s a battle going on across the country over one of the noblest of human transactions: adoption. While everyone agrees that orphaned or abandoned children need and deserve a permanent, loving family, there is disagreement over what that family should look like. Faith-based adoption agencies, generally Christian or Catholic, insist on a married mother and father, according to their deeply held beliefs — the same set of beliefs that make them so successful in their mission to serve vulnerable children.

https://angelusnews.com/content/whose-life-is-it-anyway 

Our Children Will Keep Ceremony Alive

Many Indigenous people were raised to be Catholic, Episcopal or Mormon. There are Indigenous people who preach every day about being nonjudgmental and how there is only one God. They also may erroneously believe that praying at Lakota ceremony is the work of the devil. Unfortunately, hypocrisy is the norm in the wasicu world of organized religion. Some communities on the Rosebud used to have Catholic priests living among the people. This was back when there were many Lakota families on our reservation attending Catholic mass regularly on Sundays. But today, there aren’t very many people faithfully attending church anymore. The big Catholic church in St. Francis is only filled to capacity on Christmas and Easter.

http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/news/2018-04-12/Voices/Our_Children_Will_Keep_Ceremony_Alive.html 

Cumbrian pensioner: I was sexually abused by a nun

Man gives up right to anonymity to bravely speak of his ordeal as a child . A pensioner who was sexually abused by a nun as a boy says speaking about his ordeal has changed his life, adding: "It's been on my mind all the time." Edward Hayes, 76, has given up his legal right to anonymity to speak about what he went through, saying it had lived with him for decades. Mr Hayes, of Denton Holme, Carlisle, is also hoping other victims of abuse are encouraged by his example and come forward.

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/Cumbrian-pensioner-I-was-sexually-abused-by-a-nun-3366e12e-478b-423d-8016-f6f05c1214ae-ds 

Former choirboy, 76, tells how a NUN raped him when he was aged just 12 and then had his baby

A child sex abuse victim has revealed how a nun who repeatedly raped him when he was 12 years old and living in a church-run home went on to have his baby. Edward Hayes was abused for almost three years during his time at the John Reynolds Home in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, which was then run by Catholic nuns from the order of the Franciscan Missionaries of St Joseph. A child sex abuse victim has revealed how a nun who repeatedly raped him when he was 12 years old and living in a church-run home went on to have his baby. Mr Hayes, now a 76-year-old grandfather who lives in Carlisle, has bravely waived his right to anonymity to reveal that he was raped by 27-year-old Irish nun Sister Mary Conleth during his time at the home during the 1950s.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5572923/Sex-abuse-victim-tells-NUN-raped-just-12.html 

R.I. lawmakers mull ending statute of limitations on lawsuits against sexual predators

Abuse victims gave wrenching accounts at a House hearing on the bill introduced by Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee, whose legislation was motivated by her own sister’s repeated abuse as a child by their family’s parish priest. A Rhode Island lawmaker has ripped the scab off the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal with legislation born out of her older sister’s repeated abuse, as a child, by their family’s parish priest. Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee’s legislation would remove the seven-year statute of limitations on the pursuit of legal claims against perpetrators of sex abuse. The statute of limitations derailed a lawsuit by two former victims of an infamous pedophile priest in 2016.

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180330/ri-lawmakers-mull-ending-statute-of-limitations-on-lawsuits-against-sexual-predators 

Royal Commission Inquiry Into Child Abuse in New Zealand... Is still for Sate Run Homes only

Church culpable. F R Halpin's back with this strangely worded question for me: "Can a community grow with self-murder [he means suicide but prefers his own type of offensive arch-Catholic rhetoric] being a rule of thumb?" I'd like to help him out with some facts and figures about at least one cause of NZ's tragically high rate of suicide, which brings lifelong grief to so many families and friends of those who cannot bear to face another day. I hope the NZ Catholic church succeeds in its plea to undergo the scrutiny of the pending NZ Government inquiry into historical abuse of children in state care. Meanwhile, Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse ran for five years before reporting last year. It noted that of the 1880 alleged perpetrators from within the Catholic Church, 572 were priests. Of sexual abuse survivors who gave evidence in the private sessions 19.8 per cent said they had suicidal thoughts and 16.4 per cent said they had attempted suicide.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=12024364 

Catholic Church wants to be included in state abuse inquiry

The Catholic Church has written to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asking for religious organisations to be included in a Royal Commission looking into abuse in state care. The New Zealand Catholic Bishops and representation from Catholic religious orders wrote to Ardern, Minister for Children Tracey Martin and Sir Anand Satyanand, chairman of the Royal Commission into Abuse in State Care. The letter, signed by Bishop Patrick Dunn, the president of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference and Sister Katrina Fabish RSM, congregational leader of the Sisters of Mercy, said they supported the work of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care but wanted the Inquiry's terms of reference broadened to include a range of Church institutions.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12020386 

Churches push for inclusion in Royal Commission into abuse

The Anglican and Catholic churches are making their most concentrated push yet to get the Royal Commission into abuse expanded to fully include them, with both writing to the Prime Minister. Draft terms of the inquiry exclude scrutiny of institutions where abuse in churches or other groups had no state involvement. But a letter sent to the Prime Minister, chair of the commission and children's minister, which is signed by Catholic Bishop Patrick Dunn and Sister Katrina Fabish, supports the inquiry and wants the terms to include church institutions.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/353367/churches-push-for-inclusion-in-royal-commission-into-abuse 

Sexual Abuse Survivors In Baltimore Catholic Schools Call Out Nun Who They Allege Stayed Silent

Several survivors of sexual abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic schools are demanding action against a nun who they say turned a blind eye to crimes decades ago. “All we want is the truth to be out, and we want justice to be served,” abuse survivor Bill Stankiewicz said. Survivors and their supporters carried signs outside a home for retired nuns Sunday to draw attention to a former school principal, Sister Eileen Weisman, who they claim knew but never reported a teacher at her former school, John Merzbacher, was sexually abusing students.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/03/25/catholic-schools-sex-abuse-investiagation-nun/ 

Did Some Nuns, Teachers Know Of Child Sex Abuse In Baltimore Catholic Schools?

For some time now, WJZ has been investigating a dirty secret: child sex abuse at the hands of priests, police and a teacher back in the 1960s and 1970s. Many asked how it was possible that no one noticed. Multiple sources have told WJZ’s Denise Koch that many people, including some nuns in positions of authority, did know about the abuse but instead of reporting it, they looked the other way.

baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/03/05/catholic-schools-sex-abuse-investiagation/ 

From denying existence of ‘hell’ to LGBTQ in churches, here’s why Pope Francis has raked up a storm

While some Catholics have lauded Pope Francis as a refreshing change, some progressives have slammed him for offering merely cosmetic changes to the church’s stance on controversial social issues. Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Catholic Church, has since the past few years courted controversy and drawn global attention for his remarks on divorce/marriage, church, LGBTQ community and so on. While Pope Francis has been lauded by some Catholics as a refreshing change, he’s also been slammed by some progressives as offering merely cosmetic changes to the church’s stance on controversial social issues like divorce and LGBTQ rights.

http://indianexpress.com/article/world/from-denying-existence-of-hell-to-lgbtq-in-churches-heres-why-pope-francis-has-raked-up-a-storm-5121762/ 

Full details of Finnegan abuse must be revealed: archbishop

Full details of Finnegan abuse must be revealed: archbishopThe Republic’s most senior Catholic bishop has said the truth needs to come out about Fr Malachy Finnegan after the priest was accused of a litany of child abuse at a Newry school. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin described the stories of sexual and physical abuse that are emerging from St Colman’s College as “horrendous”.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/full-details-of-finnegan-abuse-must-be-revealed-archbishop-36765417.html 

Priest’s cover-up for his pedophile friend

A Macquarie University college principal has railed against the sanctity of the confession after being told of a Catholic priest’s cover-up of child pornography by a Presbyterian minister. Alasdair Murrie-West, principal of Dunmore Lang College, heard a “confession” from a dying Catholic priest, known as TJ, of how he destroyed possible criminal evidence of a pedophile who was known to both men.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/priests-coverup-for-his-pedophile-friend/news-story/29465dfb55829d66c7fd67129a51a13b 

Saginaw County Prosecutor Responds To Reported Verbal Attacks In Priest Sex Abuse Case

The Saginaw County Prosecutor’s Office is responding to what it calls verbal attacks against reported victims in the on-going investigation of alleged sexual assaults possibly involving priests from the Saginaw Catholic Diocese. County Prosecutor John McColgan calls those attacks unfounded. Defense Attorney Allan Crawford who represents Reverend Robert DeLand who’s now facing additional charges called the investigation a witch hunt.

http://www.wsgw.com/saginaw-county-prosecutor-respond-to-reported-verbal-attacks-in-priest-sex-abuse-case/ 

Counterpoint: It's the archdiocese, not attorneys, that ought to give more in clergy sex abuse case

University of St. Thomas School of Law Prof. Hank Shea’s April 2 commentary, “Lawyers hold key to resolving bankruptcy issue,” was devoid of interest in putting survivors first. In a nutshell, Shea argued that the clergy sexual abuse case against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis can get resolved if my attorney and other attorneys reduce their fees. Nothing could be further from the truth. I and the numerous survivors I have spoken with do not want anything more from our attorneys. We want the archdiocese to treat us fairly and accept responsibility for what it did.

http://www.startribune.com/counterpoint-it-s-the-archdiocese-not-attorneys-that-ought-to-give-more-in-clergy-sex-abuse-case/478927313/ 

Macedonia apologizes to German snatched for CIA

Macedonia has formally apologized to a German citizen who was unlawfully seized, tortured, and handed over to United States authorities 14 years ago as part of the CIA's secret rendition program. The Macedonian Foreign Ministry confirmed to The Associated Press Wednesday that it had made a formal apology to 54-year-old Khaled El-Masri. Macedonian security personnel detained El-Masri in December 2003 and secretly interrogated him for more than three weeks. He then was delivered to CIA agents, who took him to Afghanistan.

https://www.wpxi.com/news/macedonia-apologizes-to-german-snatched-for-cia/726996226 

French cardinal to stand trial in sex abuse cover-up case

A French court has set a date in early 2019 for the criminal trial of a French cardinal and a high-ranking Vatican prelate suspected of covering up a child sex abuse scandal in the eastern diocese of Lyon. Victims of a priest who has confessed to preying on them have summoned Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, Monsignor Luis Ladaria Ferrer, head of a powerful office in the Vatican, and five other Catholic Church officials to appear together in court for allegedly being informed of the priest's past abuses and not reporting them to authorities.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12026260 

Pope admits ‘serious errors’ on Chilean bishop accused of cover up

Pope Francis acknowledged that he has made “serious errors of assessment and perception” in the case of Chilean Bishop Juan Barros Madrid, who has been accused of covering up for a pedophile priest and whom the pontiff has repeatedly defended. “I recognize and I want you to communicate this accurately, that I have made serious errors of judgement and perception of the situation, especially due to lack of truthful and balanced information,” Francis wrote in a letter to the Chilean bishops.

https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2018/04/11/pope-says-he-incurred-in-serious-errors-in-situation-of-chilean-bishop-accused-of-cover-up/ 

The Home for Unwanted Girls... Quebec

Joanna Goodman explores Quebec’s long-running tensions. Joanna Goodman, whose worldview was shaped by experiencing both Quebec sovereignty referendums, has taken 20 years to bring that to her fiction in The Home for Unwanted Girls. Growing up in Montreal as the daughter of a French-Canadian mother and an English-speaking father, political tension was a constant in Joanna Goodman’s youth. “I had a wonderful upbringing, but it was always coloured by the politics,” she says.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2018/04/13/joanna-goodman-explores-quebecs-long-running-tensions.html 

Adelaide archbishop wants case against him claiming abuse cover-up thrown out

The Catholic archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, wants the case against him involving claims he covered up child sex abuse by a priest thrown out of a New South Wales court. Defence barrister Stephen Odgers SC told Newcastle local court on Monday that a detailed “no case to answer” submission would be made at the end of the prosecution case against Wilson.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/09/adelaide-archbishop-wants-case-against-him-claiming-abuse-cover-up-thrown-out 

The New Zealand Royal Commission Inquiry Into Child Rape and Child Abuse

I have done it...
I could not put it into words so I phoned up... The New Zealand Royal Commission Inquiry Into Child Rape and Child Abuse today... the man I talked to was really nice and let me do the talking... I told him my views about Why: the churches should be in with the state inquiry...

Tears flowed from my eyes which he could also hear from my shaky voice... I told him that my book should be in their office... which they have had since last year... so he is going to look into that for me... I also told him that I had not heard if they got it or not... so he will send me an email as soon as he gets it... as I spoke to him for over an hour... he will also write my complaint up and put my name forward to met up with The Commission Inquiry...

So a very good day for me.... I feel that I have now done the beginning... to fix what was done to us men and women... in the catholic church New Zealand orphanages... which we are paying the nuns for abusing us... THIS MUST STOP AND THE NUNS SHOULD PAY BACK ALL THE MONEY WE HAVE GIVEN THEM... WITH INTEREST... AS THEY DID TO US...

we should NOT be paying these nazareth house nuns... FOR ABUSING and RAPING US FOR YEARS both day and night... Ann

My Book
They Promised Heaven But Led Me to Hell
Years In Two Catholic Orphanages Left Their Hidden Scars...

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Royal Commission into Child Abuse in New Zealand Answer:...

Dear Ann Thompson

Thank you for your phone call to the Royal Commission on the 10th of April. I have looked for the book that you told me had been sent to the Royal Commission “They promised me heaven but lead me to Hell”. Unfortunately I have been unable to locate your book here in the office. I have asked other staff if they had seen it in the office but no one recalls seeing it at all.

I have noted that you wish the Terms of Reference for the Royal Commission to be expanded to cover children who were placed in the care of the Church. You have also indicated that you would like to meet with the Commission when it is established. I have bought your request to the attention of the Chair.

Sir Anand Satyanand will carefully consider all submissions made about the Terms of Reference and will report to the Minister on the results of the consultation process.

He will not be naming any individual submitters in his report to the Minister on the Terms of reference. To protect the integrity of the process and your privacy, he intends to make orders to prohibit publication of submissions made by individuals and the identity of the submitters. This will not stop you from making your submission public if you wish.

If you have any concerns about the extent of confidentiality, or if you do not want your submission to be treated as confidential, please let the Commission know. When contacting the Royal Commission please quote reference number

Thank you for being so open with me yesterday Ann. I do hope that you were not too distressed after sharing your story with me.

Yours sincerely

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By keeping my book away from the Royal Commission Inquiry... is another way to keep the catholic church orphanages away... and out of the Royal Commission Inquiry Into Child Abuse in New Zealand... please help us men and women who were abused and raped by nuns... priest and their workers... to get a fair hearing in... The New Zealand Royal Commission Inquiry into Child Abuse... we need all the help we can get... Let NO week go by without your say... Thank you... Ann Free Spirit..

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We started working for the nuns from 5years old in their kitchens... laundries and on their farms... they were paid for the laundries and their farms... and as we got older... the government paid the nuns for us... which the nuns kept... they made their riches of today from the unwanted children of the catholic church ... I call it their BLOOD MONEY... this happen to children... boys and girls worldwide... in the catholic church homes and orphanages...
those of us who were born out of wedlock... were called orphans... and the nuns reaped more money from us boys and girls... they got double take for us... and they used us as their slaves... the devil's son's and daughter's...
most of our mother's were RAPED... I know my mother was RAPED... and I suffered up to 24years of abuse and rape... for my sins of being born out of wedlock... in the two catholic church orphanages run by nuns... Ann.

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Australian State Premier Challenges Catholic Priests’ ‘Seal of Confession

The premier of the Australian state of New South Wales State has initiated a national discussion on the inviolability of the Catholic “seal of confession” following a Royal Commission recommendation that priests be required to divulge any sexual abuse of children heard in the confessional. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the matter of the seal of confession needed to be handled at the national level, asserting that it goes “beyond the boundaries of any one state.”

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/04/04/australian-premier-challenges-catholic-priests-seal-confession/ 

Nun's rape victim pleads 'tell me what happened to my child'

A FORMER choirboy who was repeatedly raped by a nun who fell pregnant has begged church officials: "Please, please tell me what happened to my child." Edward Hayes was just 12 when he was preyed upon by a 27-year-old sister at the Catholic care home where he had been sent to live. The abuse, revealed exclusively by the Daily Express yesterday, continued for almost three years at the former John Reynolds Home. The home, at Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, was run by Catholic congregation of nuns The Franciscan Missionaries of St Joseph.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/941108/nun-rape-victim-edward-hayes-catholic-church-sex-abuse 

Man claims he was raped by NUN and fathered her baby during horrific sexual abuse at Catholic home

Edward Hayes told how he was abused for almost three years at the former John Reynolds Home, which culminated in a nun who allegedly raped him falling pregnant. A man claims he was raped by a nun when he was 12 and later went on to father her baby after he became a victim of horrific sexual abuse at a Catholic home. Edward Hayes told how he was abused for almost three years at the former John Reynolds Home in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, in the 1950s. The home was run by The Franciscan Missionaries of St Joseph - a Catholic congregation of nuns - which has apologised for Edward's treatment.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-claims-raped-nun-fathered-12294343 

Church scandal latest: Appalling catalogue of sex cases

The case of the grandfather is the latest in a series of scandals involving historic sex abuse and the clergy. These include: - Peter Ball, former Bishop of Gloucester, who abused vulnerable young men after they came to him for spiritual guidance. Ball, 85, was jailed for 32 months at the Old Bailey in 2015 for a series of sex crimes while he was Bishop of Lewes from 1977 to 1991. He was under suspicion for years but was allowed give up his ministry and retire after accepting a police caution for gross indecency in 1993.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/940588/catalogue-church-sex-cases-peter-ball-trevor-devamanikkam 

Nun raped me and had my baby: Torment of schoolboy victim revealed in shock abuse scandal

A VICTIM of sex abuse by a depraved nun has told how she became pregnant by him when he was just 12. Edward Hayes is still fighting for answers from the Catholic Church. He wanted to speak out over the Easter weekend to lift the lid on sexual abuse by nuns and encourage other victims to finally come forward after years of secret torment While horrific historic sexual abuse of boys by priests has been widely exposed, he believes his case could be the “tip of the iceberg” in revealing how nuns may also have targeted vulnerable boys.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/940504/child-abuse-nun-raped-me-and-had-my-baby-schoolboy-victim 

'Persistent' child sex offenders to receive life sentence under new NSW law

“Persistent" child sex abusers will face a maximum life sentence as part of a raft of legal changes announced by the NSW government today. Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Attorney General Mark Speakman introduced the reforms, putting the state ahead in its response to recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse. But she stopped short of pushing for state laws to break the seal of confession.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/04/03/08/54/gladys-berejiklian-sex-abuse-nsw-government-royal-commission-laws-offenders 

I am appalled at the response of the church to child abuse, says PETER SAUNDERS

THERE are many myths around this sordid subject of child abuse. One is that women are not perpetrators. Let’s nail that lie. I offer Myra Hindley, Rose West and the many men I have spoken to over the years who have suffered abuse at the hands of women. And that includes abuse by nuns. Many people, victims of these crimes, find it very difficult to talk about it. Men find it particularly difficult to talk about abuse at the hands of a woman. As a member of the victims and survivors consultative panel to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse and as a Roman Catholic, I am appalled at the response of the institutional church to these dreadful crimes.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/940515/Child-abuse-myths-female-perpetrators-church-abuse-comment-NAPAC 

Mormon Church Instructor Admits He Sexually Abused Kids as Young as 2

If you thought child sexual abuse only happened in the Catholic Church, then you may be surprised to hear this story about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Texas man has admitted to sexually abusing at least four young kids between the ages of two and six while he served as a primary instructor at the Mormon Church. Noel Anderson, 22, molested the children over the course of seven years, according to the Washington Post.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/04/02/mormon-church-instructor-admits-he-sexually-abused-kids-as-young-as-2/ 

Cumbrian pensioner: I was sexually abused by a nun

A pensioner who was sexually abused by a nun as a boy says speaking about his ordeal has changed his life, adding: "It's been on my mind all the time." Edward Hayes, 76, has given up his legal right to anonymity to speak about what he went through, saying it had lived with him for decades. Mr Hayes, of Denton Holme, Carlisle, is also hoping other victims of abuse are encouraged by his example and come forward.

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/Cumbrian-pensioner-I-was-sexually-abused-by-a-nun-3366e12e-478b-423d-8016-f6f05c1214ae-ds 

Ethiopia Bans All Foreign Adoptions

Now, let’s follow up on the end of adoptions from Ethiopia. Many Americans adopted children from that country not so long ago. One of them is in my extended family. But after an Ethiopian girl endured abuse at the hands of her adoptive American parents and later died, the country banned all foreigners from adopting. Critics say this new policy could mean more children on the streets, although in Ethiopia, it’s a matter of national pride. NPR’s Eyder Peralta reports. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: I meet Nikki and Brad Huelsman at a hotel in Addis Ababa. NIKKI HUELSMAN: What’re you doing? What’re you doing?

http://www.satenaw.com/ethiopia-bans-all-foreign-adoptions/