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19 September 2018

"The Ghosts of the Orphanage."

Survivors' stories of child abuse at Burlington's St. Joseph's Orphanage decades ago have risen to the attention of state and local leaders in the criminal justice system -- a quarter century after they were first made public. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan along with Burlington police announced the formation of a joint state-local task force on Monday. Investigators want to bring a "public accounting" of what occurred not just at St. Joseph's Orphanage, but at similar institutions around the state, the attorney general said.

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2018/09/10/vermont-catholic-orphanage-abuse-task-force-investigate-st-josephs/1253905002/