THE CATHOLIC Church’s handling of sex abuse has again been on the
front pages of American newspapers after nuns were accused of systematic
abuse and the chair of the Church’s abuse watchdog accused bishops of
impeding its work.
The Sisters of St Joseph ran the Boston School for the Deaf from 1899 until it closed in 1994. According to a 100-page complaint, filed in a Massachusetts court by Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney with years of experience suing the Church over clerical sex abuse, the nuns carried out sexual assaults on their charges, both boys and girls, over decades. Children are also alleged to have been locked in cupboards for hours, to have had their heads flushed down lavatories, and their hands tied behind their backs for using sign-language, which was discouraged.
http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/22nd-may-2004/28/deaf-children-were-victims-of-nuns-abuse
The Sisters of St Joseph ran the Boston School for the Deaf from 1899 until it closed in 1994. According to a 100-page complaint, filed in a Massachusetts court by Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney with years of experience suing the Church over clerical sex abuse, the nuns carried out sexual assaults on their charges, both boys and girls, over decades. Children are also alleged to have been locked in cupboards for hours, to have had their heads flushed down lavatories, and their hands tied behind their backs for using sign-language, which was discouraged.
http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/22nd-may-2004/28/deaf-children-were-victims-of-nuns-abuse
