BuzzFeed contributor Christine Kenneally about her article investigating physical and sexual abuse by nuns at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Vt.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Over the last few years, the U.S. has come to terms with patterns of child abuse in the Catholic Church. In other countries, these investigations have extended to Catholic orphanages. Canada, Australia, the U.K. and other European countries have conducted government investigations that exposed patterns of horrific abuse at Catholic orphanages.
The U.S. has never had such a comprehensive accounting. And now a major investigation by BuzzFeed gives reason to believe that the same problems may have existed here in American orphanages. Christine Kenneally is an investigative reporter who spent years researching this story. Welcome to the program.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/29/643062117/buzzfeed-investigation-details-decades-of-systemic-child-abuse-at-vermont-orphan
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/29/643062117/buzzfeed-investigation-details-decades-of-systemic-child-abuse-at-vermont-orphan
