It’s time for our community to learn the full truth, no matter how horrifying or painful those details might be. This week, state, county and city authorities announced a task force to investigate decades-old abuse at St. Joseph’s Orphanage on North Avenue in Burlington.
Although the orphanage closed in 1974, the scandal remains and has hung over our community for decades.
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Children who lived at the orphanage reported physical and sexual abuse, even accounts of murder at the hands of nuns and priests.
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/nbc5-editorial-orphanage-task-force/23134368
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