The story of Dublin’s ‘most notorious child sexual abuser’

Vatican summit on child sexual abuse: Fr Tony Walsh was sentenced in 2010 to a total of 123 years for abuse of one boy Ahead of the Vatican conference on abuse in the Church, The Irish Times examines the case of Dublin’s “most notorious child abuser” Few cases illustrate so succinctly why the Catholic Church merited criticism for its handling of clerical child sex abuse as that of survivor Darren McGavin and perpetrator Fr Tony Walsh.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/the-story-of-dublin-s-most-notorious-child-sexual-abuser-1.3800474 

Vatican summit on sexual abuse has its roots in Cajun country

Ray Mouton and Gilbert Gauthe could not have been more polar opposites. Mouton was a flamboyant, well-heeled defense lawyer whose Louisiana ancestors included a governor, a United States Senator and the founder of the community that eventually became the city of Lafayette. He drove flashy cars, captured media attention, raked in big bucks and lived on a 15-acre estate with his wife and three children near the Acadiana fields where he had quarterbacked his school football team to a state championship.

https://expo.nola.com/news/g66l-2019/02/e571fda9184994/vatican-summit-on-sexual-abuse-has-its-roots-in-cajun-country-.html 

The Catholic Church is bursting with secrets. Investigating one will unravel them all.

Garry Wills, professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, is the author of “Why I Am a Catholic.” The New York Times published an extraordinary article this week based on interviews with two dozen gay Catholic priests and seminarians in 13 states. “Out” men and women today are often widely admired, but most of the interviews had to be conducted anonymously because the Vatican still treats homosexuality as “objectively disordered” — a policy that persists even though the representation of gay men in the priesthood is higher, probably far higher, than in the general population.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-catholic-church-is-bursting-with-secrets-investigating-one-will-unravel-them-all/2019/02/20/ad397976-3540-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.540898fe3197 

Abuse victims demand to see pope, call for bishops to be fired

Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy demanded on Wednesday to meet Pope Francis to press their call for the Church to apply a zero tolerance policy including the dismissal of bishops who covered up such offences. The 12 victims met with five Vatican officials a day before the start of an unprecedented conference on clerical abuse that aims to guide senior bishops on how best to tackle a problem that has decimated the Church’s credibility.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-abuse-survivors/abuse-victims-demand-to-see-pope-call-for-bishops-to-be-fired-idUSKCN1Q91QG

Fallen idols and toppled statues: The world’s Catholics react to the Vatican’s abuse summit

The Vatican is currently convening its first summit on an issue that has long plagued the church — sex and child abuse. But while the Vatican is the seat of Catholic power, the people who follow the faith — and there are nearly 1.3 billion of them — are spread across the world. Here is how some primarily Catholic countries are reacting to the Vatican summit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/21/fallen-idols-toppled-statues-worlds-catholics-react-vaticans-abuse-summit/?utm_term=.cc188bc2196e 

Polish activists pull down statue of priest in abuse protest

Activists in Poland toppled a statue of a prominent Solidarity-era priest early Thursday amid allegations that he sexually abused minors, a protest against what they called a failure by the Catholic Church and society to resolve the problem of clergy sex abuse. The protest came only hours before Pope Francis gathered Catholic leaders from around the world for a landmark summit at the Vatican to address the church's sex abuse crisis.

https://www.kxnet.com/news/polish-activists-pull-down-statue-of-priest-in-abuse-protest/1798201198 

Searing testimony heard at Vatican sex abuse summit

The day began with an African woman telling an extraordinary gathering of Catholic leaders that her priestly rapist forced her to have three abortions over a dozen years after he started violating her at age 15. It ended with a Colombian cardinal warning them they could all face prison if they let such crimes go unpunished. In between, Pope Francis began charting a new course for the Catholic Church to confront clergy sexual abuse and cover-up, a scandal that has consumed his papacy and threatens the credibility of the Catholic hierarchy at large.

https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Pope-offers-21-proposals-to-fight-abuse-at-start-of-summit-506156951.html 

Francis must fix cover-up culture that John Paul II enabled

Jason Berry was the first to report on clergy sex abuse in any substantial way, beginning with a landmark 1985 report about the Louisiana case involving a priest named Gilbert Gauthe. In 1992, he published Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children, a nationwide investigation after seven years of reporting in various outlets. In the foreword, Fr. Andrew Greeley referred to "what may be the greatest scandal in the history of religion in America and perhaps the greatest problem Catholicism has faced since the Reformation."

https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/francis-must-fix-cover-culture-john-paul-ii-enabled 

Can The Catholic Church Heal Itself? NO

After decades of revelations about abuse by clergy in the Catholic Church, this week, bishops will come to Rome to discuss the protection of children. This meeting, hosted by Pope Francis, is the first of its kind. And while some of the faithful applaud the church’s effort to address the issue, some are suggesting the institution is simply too damaged to remain credible.

https://wamu.org/story/19/02/21/can-the-catholic-church-heal-itself/ 

'We were truth-tellers': Vancouver woman shares story of abuse with Catholic officials

One by one, a dozen survivors shared their shattering tales of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy with high-ranking church officials gathered to listen to the stories they'd declined to hear for years. Leona Huggins, the only Canadian in the gathering that took place ahead of a historic summit at the Vatican this week, said the energy built “like a tsunami” as victims hailing from Spain to Jamaica urged clergy to take concrete action to begin a new chapter for the church.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/we-were-truth-tellers-vancouver-woman-shares-story-of-abuse-with-catholic-officials-1.4307325 

Accused French priest tries to block film on child abuse scandal

BERLIN • A priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys is trying to block the release of a film about a scandal which has rocked the French Catholic church and put one of its most senior cardinals in the dock. The acclaimed director Francois Ozon worked for years in secret on “By the Grace of God”, which will be premiered on Friday at the Berlin film festival.

https://themalaysianreserve.com/2019/02/11/accused-french-priest-tries-to-block-film-on-child-abuse-scandal/ 

Why a close look at the Pennsylvania grand jury report shows harder truths about clergy sex abuse

In August of last year, Catholics in this country absorbed the shock of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse. The document was horrifying for the numbers it cited — hundreds of clergy perpetrators over six dioceses — and for its detailed descriptions of abusive acts. It created the strong and repugnant impression that the ranks of the clergy were teeming with abusers, that the situation was constant for 70 years, and that bishops responded with cover-ups and little else.

https://angelusnews.com/news/dr-john-p-nelson/why-a-close-look-at-the-pennsylvania-grand-jury-report-shows-harder-truths-about-clergy-sex-abuse 

Showing up to effect change

A panel discussion held on Feb. 6 about Pennsylvania’s 40th Grand Jury Report was an opportunity for candid conversation on reconciling Catholic identity with the Church’s sexual abuse crisis and cover-ups. Despite the event’s importance, it was sparsely attended by St. Joe’s students, predominantly attracting community members including Charles Gallagher, a former prosecutor who worked on a 2005 grand jury investigation of sexual abuse concealment within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

http://www.sjuhawknews.com/?p=11417 

Report shows horror of church sex abuse, need for newspapers

The stunning report by the Houston Chronicle on the hundreds of cases of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist pastors and officials proves again that this pervasive crime is not limited to any one segment of our society. It is all too common, even among church leaders who hypocritically claim to uphold the highest moral standards. The first part of the report, published Sunday by the Chronicle and other Hearst newspapers such as the Beaumont Enterprise, also reinforces the value of newspapers in these troubled times.

https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/opinions/editorials/article/ENTERPRISE-EDITORIAL-Report-shows-horror-of-13608354.php

Spokane’s Plain-Spoken Shepherd Makes Waves

Bishop Thomas Daly serves notice to pro-abortion Catholic politicians in his diocese. When Father Bob Dunn read the headlines sparked by his friend Spokane Bishop Tom Daly’s strong corrective for Catholic politicians who promote abortion rights, the New York City priest told his friends, “This is the type of witness we need.”

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/spokanes-plain-spoken-shepherd-makes-waves 

Las Cruces Diocese Releases Accused Priests' Personnel Files

The Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces has turned over thousands of pages of documents to the New Mexico attorney general's office that include the personnel files of more than two dozen priests who face credible allegations of sexually abusing children. Thousands of pages that include the personnel files of more than two dozen priests accused of sexually abusing children have been turned over to the New Mexico attorney general's office, the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces said Monday. Diocese officials also identified 13 other priests who have been the subject of credible allegations while serving in other dioceses.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2019-02-11/las-cruces-diocese-releases-accused-priests-personnel-files 

UN committee blasts Italy for complicity in Church’s abuse scandals

A United Nations commission has published a scathing report of Italy’s handling of clerical sexual abuse, stating its concern with numerous cases of children being sexually abused by Catholic priests in the country and calling for an independent and impartial commission of inquiry. “The committee is concerned about the numerous cases of children having been sexually abused by religious personnel of the Catholic Church in the State party and the low number of investigations and criminal prosecutions,” said a Feb. 7 report of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

https://angelusnews.com/news/claire-giangrave/un-committee-blasts-italy-for-complicity-in-churchs-abuse-scandals 

Penn State alumni trustees attack Freeh investigation into Jerry Sandusky scandal

A report compiled by longstanding critics of Louis Freeh’s 2012 investigation into the sex-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University asserts that the former FBI director didn’t have the evidence to blame the school’s football "culture” as he did, much less prove that its leaders knew of or conspired to cover up Jerry Sandusky’s attacks on children.

https://www.philly.com/news/jerry-sandusky-penn-state-freeh-investigation-alumni-trustees-report-joe-paterno-20190212.html 

Africa is also grappling with clerical abuse, say Catholic leaders

'I think there could be more cases in Africa, but most go unreported because of fear' When child sexual abuse scandals involving Catholic priests emerge in Africa, they do not draw a frenzied reaction similar to that witnessed in developed countries, but the continent's church is affected, said Catholic leaders.

https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/11361/africa-is-also-grappling-with-clerical-abuse-say-catholic-leaders 

Inside the horrifying, unspoken world of sexually abusive nuns

Come back down to earth people... and watch the coverup of nuns raping children and adults...
It sure is an unspoken word = NUNS abused and raped children and young adults... BOTH GIRLS, BOYS AND YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN... keep it coming out ladies... the nuns are now trying to hide behind... a few nuns who were abused as adults... this has nothing to do with defenseless children the nuns abused in their care... they were worst than the priest in our eyes... because they abused all the time... and remember what I wrote a while and it is in my book... every time they came back from church... they abused us children... but what we saw on the nuns faces... when ever a priest or bishop came to the orphanages... they were all over them... and making us bow at their feet... it makes me sick now that I know why... they sent us to the priest knowing full well... that the priest was going to rape us... I am sorry... but I have NO TIME FOR THE NUNS.. they knew what they were doing to us... and the nuns did not stop it... we were lambs to the slaughter... the nuns made sure... that they picked the right girls and boys... US CHILDREN... who had NO ONE LOOKING OUT FOR US... god this is tearing at me... we were their puppets... and they knew how hard to put those strings... they sure broke us down little by little... and it was at such an early age... that you had to do what ever they told you to do... so young... my god were we so young... little girls and boys not even walking or toilet trained... being beaten within an inch of our lives... you have no idea what I go through every day... because of the abuse and rape which was done to me... it makes me hate myself all the time... so dirty and unclean... Ann Free Spirit = Ann Thompson

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It’s the line from scripture that stayed with Cait Finnegan for nearly half a century as she tried to suppress the painful memories of the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her Catholic clergy educator.
“God is Love,” Sister Mary Juanita Barto told Finnegan as she repeatedly raped her in classrooms at Mater Christi High School in Queens in the late 1960s.
The abuse began when Finnegan was 15 and continued throughout her high school years — on school buses to out-of-town sporting events, at religious retreats in upstate New York, at Finnegan’s childhood home in Woodside and at a Long Island convent.
“She was obsessed with me 24 hours a day,” Finnegan, now 67, told The Post. “The woman owned me.”

https://nypost.com/2019/02/16/inside-the-horrifying-unspoken-world-of-sexually-abusive-nuns/

Clergy abuse survivor sues Syracuse Catholic Diocese hours after new law takes effect

A survivor of clergy sexual abuse in Central New York filed a lawsuit against the Syracuse Roman Catholic Diocese, this afternoon after a new law lifted restrictions on such suits. The Child Victims Act, passed in New York in January and signed by the governor today, gives victims until their 55th birthday to file civil suits against their abusers and institutions.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2019/02/clergy-abuse-survivor-sues-syracuse-catholic-diocese-hours-after-new-law-takes-effect.html 

Virginia's two Catholic bishops release names of 58 priests they say have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors

The Most Reverend Bishop Michael F. Burbidge on Wednesday released the names of 16 priests the Arlington diocese has deemed "credibly accused" of sex abuse. Virginia's two Catholic dioceses Wednesday released lists of clergy whom officials say were deemed "credibly accused" of sexually abusing youth, the latest in a slew of U.S. dioceses to make public such names amid a national crisis over clerical abuse and cover-up.

 https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Virginia-s-two-Catholic-bishops-release-names-of-13614699.php

Abuse summit: ‘Nobody can ignore this now’ By Michael Swan

ver since Pope Francis announced in September that he was calling the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences to Rome for an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse, expectations have been mounting. He called for the summit as the Church was reeling from several abuse scandals that had implicated priests, bishops and even cardinals. Nine months into 2018, it was already a horrible year for the Church, and it would get worse.

https://bccatholic.ca/content/abuse-summit-nobody-can-ignore-this-now 

Catholic dioceses in New Jersey release names of accused priests

Five Roman Catholic dioceses in New Jersey on Wednesday released the names of 188 clergy members who have been accused of sexually abusing children dating back decades, including a former cardinal facing defrocking by the Vatican. The disclosure was the result of an internal investigation of archdiocese records and all of the priests and deacons listed have previously been reported to law enforcement and none remain in the ministry, Newark Archbishop Cardinal Joseph Tobin said in a statement.

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/catholic-dioceses-in-new-jersey-release-names-of-accused-priests/131769.htm 

Your thoughts on McCarrick as NCR Newsmaker of the Year

Just before Christmas, NCR published an editorial announcing former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick as our publication's choice for Newsmaker of the Year. It is summed up best by this line in our editorial why the team decided on McCarrick: "His story takes on a greater significance because it unmasks, in ways that previous cases of episcopal malfeasance have not, the secrecy, deceit and corruption of the clerical system.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/your-thoughts-mccarrick-ncr-newsmaker-year

Catholic Bishops Release Lists of Clergy Accused of Child Abuse

RICHMOND — Advocates for victims of child abuse still have concerns after the two Catholic dioceses in Virginia released the names of 58 clergy who church officials said had been credibly accused of sexual abuse against a minor. The Diocese of Richmond issued a list of 42 names along with a letter of apology to the family and children affected. “To those who experienced abuse from clergy, I am truly, deeply sorry. I regret that you have to bear the burden of the damage you suffered at the hands of those you trusted,” Bishop Barry C. Knestout stated in Wednesday’s letter.

http://www.localkicks.com/politics/local_politics/catholic-bishops-release-lists-of-clergy-accused-of-child-abuse 

Allegations of abuse in two Asian nations make some worry more to follow

A boy attends Mass with his family at the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Singapore April 2, 2010. "The scandals abroad are a wake-up call for us, as the Catholic Church in Singapore has not been spared allegations of child abuse," Singapore Archbishop William Goh said.  Recent credible sexual abuse allegations in India and East Timor have underscored the fears of many in the Church that clerical sex abuse is rife in South, Southeast and North Asia, which have a collective population of at least 120 million Catholics.

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-asia/2019/02/14/allegations-of-abuse-in-two-asian-nations-make-some-worry-more-to-follow/

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry: Nuns 'lied that girl's parents were dead'

A woman has told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry how nuns lied to her as a child and said her parents were dead and that she had no family. Yvonne Radzevicius said she only found out her mother and father were alive, and that she had five brothers and sisters, decades later. The 76-year-old said she was given a different name while in the care of nuns at Nazareth House in Glasgow. She was later sent to a Nazareth House facility in Australia at the age of 10.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-46969999 

Woman beaten and abused by Belfast nuns settles action for £50,000

A woman who claims she was repeatedly beaten by nuns and forced to bathe in barely diluted disinfectant at a children’s home in Belfast is to receive a £50,000 (€57,000) payout. The settlement was announced at the High Court in a case which also involved allegations she was fed food unfit for human consumption. The woman, who is not being identified, sued the Sisters of Nazareth over her treatment while in their care decades ago.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/woman-beaten-and-abused-by-belfast-nuns-settles-action-for-50-000-1.3789697 

Survivors group in Kansas reveals names of more Catholic priests accused of molestation

The names of five Roman Catholic priests thought to have molested children in other states — though they weren’t on the list the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas released Jan. 25 identifying 22 priests it concluded had sexually abused children — were made public Wednesday in Topeka by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

http://www.hutchnews.com/news/20190213/survivors-group-in-kansas-reveals-names-of-more-catholic-priests-accused-of-molestation 

Sins of the brother: How a nun who was raped by her father and sexually abused by a cleric exposed her beloved TWIN as a paedophile priest

Margaret Harrod and her twin brother Michael shared a unique bond from birth, which made his adult crimes against boys and girls all the more sickening. They were inseparable as children, sitting side-by-side at school and sharing friends as teenagers, and both gave their lives to the Catholic Church at age 22. Margaret joined the convent and Michael was ordained a Salesian priest, delighting their devout parents and family in suburban Sydney.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6651855/How-nun-sacrificed-expose-twin-brother-paedophile-priest.html 

Campaigner calls on Catholic Church to remove 'vagueness and ambiguity' from response to child abuse

CAMPAIGNER AND ABUSE survivor Marie Collins has called on the Catholic Church to adopt a zero-tolerance policy to child abuse. Collins has made a number of recommendations in a submission to the organisers of the Protection of Minors meeting, which is due to take place in the Vatican later this month.

https://www.thejournal.ie/marie-collins-catholic-church-4471253-Feb2019/ 

JOSE GASPAR: Vatican summit on clerical sexual abuse too late for Wasco brothers

"He would take me in the back and do all sorts of things. I was really confused. I didn't know what I should do," George Santillan told me in 2013. Santillan was describing the years of sexual abuse inflicted upon him and his younger brother, Howard Santillan, by Monsignor Anthony Herdegen of St. John's Catholic Church in Wasco.

https://www.bakersfield.com/columnists/jose-gaspar/jose-gaspar-vatican-summit-on-clerical-sexual-abuse-too-late/article_3c5ac252-20c1-11e9-a05e-7f0bf39ad9b4.html

German Catholic Church 'needs urgent reform'

Eight religious thought leaders have urged Cardinal Reinhard Marx for more tolerance towards gays and a change to celibacy rules. Allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic bishops continue to fuel modernization demands. The head of the Catholic Church in Germany on Sunday faced fresh calls for "courageous reforms" in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated nearly 1,700 clerics.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-catholic-church-needs-urgent-reform/a-47343124

Accused French priest tries to block film on child abuse scandal

A priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys is trying to block the release of a film about a scandal which has rocked the French Catholic church and put one of its most senior cardinals in the dock. The acclaimed director Francois Ozon worked for years in secret on "By the Grace of God", which will be premiered Friday at the Berlin film festival. But its release in France later this month is threatened, with the accused priest Bernard Preynat going to court to demand that it is not shown until after his trial, which is due to start later this year.

https://www.france24.com/en/20190208-accused-french-priest-tries-block-film-child-abuse-scandal 

Respected Pastor Exposed After 40 Years of Abusing Children

As the revelations of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church – and what senior clergy members did to cover up the crimes – continue to widen the scandal, many are asking how the accused were able to get away with committing deplorable acts over and over again. The same could be asked about Pennsylvania pastor John Hinton.

https://www.faithwire.com/2019/02/04/how-a-respected-pastor-got-away-with-abusing-children-for-40-years/ 

SNAP pleased at more priests pushed into public eye

A network of people abused by priests is optimistic that more Catholic leaders will come forward in naming the accused. On Friday, the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana released the names of three dozen clergy members it says were credibly accused of sexually abusing children or vulnerable adults. One day earlier, Catholic leaders in Texas identified 286 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children.

https://onenewsnow.com/church/2019/02/04/snap-pleased-at-more-priests-pushed-into-public-eye 

Texas abuse survivor says publishing names helps ‘reclaim his childhood’

Allen Hebert in 1981, the year he met Father Adrianus Johannes Willemsen, one of 22 priests named as having a credible sexual abuse allegation made against them by the Diocese of Austin Jan. 31.  Allen Hebert was 12-years-old in 1981, when he met Father Adrianus Johannes Willemsen - “Father Andy” - a Dutch priest serving in the Diocese of Austin. The priest became friends with Hebert’s family, and his parents had no suspicions about the close friendship the cleric was forming with their son.

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/02/04/texas-abuse-survivor-says-publishing-names-helps-reclaim-his-childhood/ 

West Virginia Catholics want to ‘follow the truth wherever it leads,’ including to Philadelphia

All eyes are on several high-profile cases of abuse and its cover-up in the Roman Catholic Church. Many of them include bishops and priests from the Washington area—former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, disgraced Opus Dei priest John McCloskey, the now-retired Cardinal Donald Wuerl, and so on. And yet, what is happening in the seemingly isolated and “unimportant” Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia is also important to watch.

https://www.philly.com/opinion/commentary/catholic-clergy-abuse-west-virginia-20190204.html 

Church releases more names of Catholic priests accused of molesting children

The Catholic church has released the names of 17 priests assigned to churches in North Louisiana who are believed to have sexually abused children before 1986. Thirteen served at churches in Shreveport-Bossier City. The names were released Wednesday by the Diocese of Alexandria, which oversaw Shreveport until 1986, when Shreveport became a separate diocese. Under church protocol, the files of accused pedophile priests stayed in Alexandria.

https://www.ktbs.com/news/church-releases-more-names-of-catholic-priests-accused-of-molesting/article_2ec93262-2b21-11e9-8244-87a9f2155caf.html 

Alleged victims claim sexual abuse by nuns in Catholic Church is 'secret not yet told'

While the Catholic Church faces widespread allegations of sexual abuse within its ranks, victims say nuns around the country are guilty as well. Several women told CBS News about allegations of misconduct by nuns, including molestation and forced kissing, in an epidemic that some have dubbed “pedophile nuns.” Trish Cahill claims that a sister at her New Jersey convent would feed her drugs and alcohol, “grooming” her for sex at just 15 years old after confessing that her uncle sexually abused her.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-catholic-church-nun-sexual-abuse-20190102-story.html 

Why are so many Catholic priests and nuns being accused of sexually abusing children?

Now, the majority of people who aren’t a member of a motorcycle club would assume that these men are trouble just because of how they are dressed and because they ride motorcycles, right? And why does the public do that? Because there are outlaw biker groups that look similar to them running around who ARE dangerous. But in this case, if that is what you are assuming, you’d be wrong. The first group of guys are a biker group that has joined with the Kurds to fight ISIS.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-so-many-Catholic-priests-and-nuns-being-accused-of-sexually-abusing-children 

We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage

Sally figured the boy fell from the window in 1944 or so, because she was moving to the “big girls” dormitory that day. Girls usually moved when they were 6, though residents of St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont, did not always have a clear sense of their age — birthdays, like siblings and even names, being one of the many human attributes that were stripped from them when they passed through its doors.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs

Gayle's story | Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child .

Gayle said she’d heard a lot about sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church, and she wanted it known that nuns could abuse children too. When her parents were posted overseas in the early 1970s, Gayle and her sister were sent to board at a Catholic college in New South Wales for a year. From the time of her arrival at 13, Gayle was sexually abused by Sister Martha, a Sister of the Good Samaritan Order.

https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/narratives/gayles-story 

Orphans Suffered Decades of Alleged Physical, Sexual Abuse by Nuns: Report

Nuns and other administrators at St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont, have been accused of subjecting dozens of children to physical, psychological, and sexual abuse in the mid-1900s, according to a Monday report from BuzzFeed News. People who lived at the Catholic orphanage as children claim horrific abuse, saying they were forced to eat their own vomit and were routinely beaten and sexually abused.

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/orphans-suffered-decades-of-alleged-physical-sexual-abuse-by-nuns-report

‘WE SAW NUNS KILL KIDS’

The home closed down in 1974, and the shocking allegations involve vulnerable young kids who lived there from the 1930s through to the 1970s. HORROR stories of torture and murder have resurfaced following a lengthy investigation into historic abuse at a Catholic orphanage in the States. St Joseph's in Burlington, Vermont, shut its doors in 1974, and the shocking allegations involve vulnerable young kids who lived there from the 1930s through to the 1970s.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7114777/nuns-vermont-catholic-orphanage-sexually-abused-children/ 

For Decades, Nuns Brutally Abused and Killed Kids in Vermont Orphanage: Report

Since the Boston Globe’s spotlight team ran more than 600 stories, in 2002, revealing that the Catholic Church had buried thousands of children’s sexual-abuse allegations against hundreds of priests, child molestation within the Church has become a major ongoing scandal. However, per a new bombshell investigation in BuzzFeed News, there exists another accusation of systemic abuse against the Church, one that is equally dark but less-known.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/nuns-allegedly-abused-murdered-countless-kids-in-orphanages.html 

Abuse spotlight switches to nuns

The Catholic Church in Australia, already investigating allegations of child abuse by its most senior cleric, has been hammered with further claims of brutality and sexual abuse. Former residents at a Brisbane orphanage run by the Sisters of Nazareth have made public allegations including rapes by priests and a nun using a flagstick, whippings with staple-studded belts, and the forced eating of faeces.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=2351727 

Child migrant sent to Australia from UK was falsely told her family was dead for 30 years

God I have been saying this for years... the nuns told us our mother’s had died... I so remember when sitting on the floor in the Winter time... on a Sunday afternoon... and the first thing we would ask the nuns was about our mother’s... every time was the same words... and then they would tell us not to bother looking for her... after we left because we would never find her... lies upon lies was all we got from the nuns... about our families... mostly about our mother’s... we just wanted to know more about her... they never once told us the truth... at any time...   

We saw the evil in the nuns... when they were our caregivers... we were not allowed to talk... we never had a doll to play with from 9years old... no toys to play with... the nuns were pure evil... and worst still when ever us girls... asked about our mothers... they just hated some of us... who had no one looking out for us... 

it still gets to me... in what they told me about my mother... she was just a young girls herself... she had done nothing wrong... but they thrashed me every night... to get my mother's sins out of my soul... she was innocent like I was... but in the catholic church eyes... I was the devil's daughter... and the devil had me well and truly... on the end of his pitchfork... the only place for me when I die... was thrown into hell and pocked by the pitchfork by the devil... I remember those pictures so well... they had them on the blackboard for us all to see... they were shocking pictures... babies and children crying while the devil running after them... we had to look at them everyday... we were never able to forget those pictures... if we didn't look at them we were thrashed... there was no running away from the nuns... no safe place to hide from them... I only hope the people believe us... and don't take us the wrong way... we were little children... most of us babies... when the abuse and rape started happening to us... babies and children on the devil's pitchforks... and throwing them into the fires of hell... Ann Free Spirit = Ann Thompson

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A Perth woman, who was sent to Australia as a child from the UK, has revealed she was told her parents were dead - despite her mother and five siblings being alive.

Yvonne Radzevicius, 76, was sent from a catholic children’s home in Glasgow to a similar home in Geraldton in Western Australia when she was just 10.

She has also detailed the sexual, physical and emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of nuns and other staff as part of an inquiry into child abuse in Scotland.

https://www.9news.com.au/2019/01/24/12/18/uk-news-children-sent-to-australia-abuse-yvonne-radzevicius 

Report names more than 80 former San Bernardino-area clergy accused of sexual abuse

A report released Thursday from a Minnesota-based law firm listed the names of more than 80 former clergy accused of sexual abuse in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, an area now covered by Diocese of San Bernardino. At a press conference in Ontario, attorney Mike Reck of Jeff Anderson & Associates outlined the report's findings and introduced two men who recounted being abused in the Roman Catholic Church.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/2019/02/01/report-names-former-san-bernardino-area-clergy-accused-sexual-abuse/2739615002/