Residential School Survior Stories

The following is a selection of Survivor stories drawn from the Our Stories…Our Strength video collection. We are grateful to the men and women who have shared their personal and often painful accounts of their experiences of residential school and its legacy. It is by sharing these truths that we can all continue to work toward understanding and healing.
Please contact us info@legacyofhope.ca if you are a Survivor who participated in the Our Stories…Our Strength project and would like to have your video posted on this site. If your story appears here and you would like it removed from the site or the collection, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@legacyofhope.ca

http://wherearethechildren.ca/en/stories/

Protest focuses on nuns in abuse

Members of an advocacy group for victims of clergy abuse told their stories Sunday in Chicago about being sexually molested by nuns.
Landa Mauriello-Vernon, the Connecticut director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), said the group, which passed out leaflets about the issue outside a Catholic church on the South Side and held a private meeting with representatives of women's religious orders, wants the public to know that some nuns have sexually abused children.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-10-04/news/0410040129_1_nuns-abuse-sexually 

Woman sues order of nuns for alleged '60s sex abuse

Women who say Roman Catholic sisters molested them as children asked Cardinal Francis George Tuesday to address their plight, saying the attention paid to abusive priests has overshadowed problems involving nuns.
The request stems from a lawsuit filed Tuesday against a religious order, alleging that one of its sisters repeatedly molested the plaintiff, Christine Bertrand, between 1962 and 1967 when she was a student at St. Juliana School in Chicago.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-06-01/news/0506010339_1_religious-orders-nuns-abuse 

New nun child sex abuse case in Belgium

it is still coming out... about nuns raping children... it is just never ending... yes NUNS and WOMEN rape children boys and girls... Ann

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Belgian prosecutors on Tuesday said they had opened a judicial inquiry after a fresh claim of sexual abuse in an institution for children run by nuns.
The latest probe follows a claim by a 63-year Belgian man to have been the target of sexual abuse in the 1950s in the Sint-Vincentius de Halen orphanage in the northeast region of Limbourg.

http://bhcourier.com/new-nun-child-sex-abuse-case-in-belgium/ 

Magdalene Laundries: 20 years since the last laundry closed in Ireland, five survivors tell their heartbreaking stories

THIS weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland. On September 25 1996, Ireland’s final laundry, which was located on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin and run by the Sisters of Our Lady, closed its doors for good.
While it’s not known for definite, it’s estimated that 10,000 women were institutionalised in laundries since the foundation of the Irish state in 1922.  The Irish Post reported in 2013 that the majority of laundry survivors escaped to Britain, for fear they’d be caught and incarcerated again.

http://irishpost.co.uk/magdalene-laundries-20-years-since-last-laundry-closed-ireland-five-survivors-tell-stories/ 

Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia – a first of its kind urban history documentary

History Making Productions, the Philadelphia-based EMMY award winning documentary film production company behind Philadelphia: The Great Experiment, has produced a new documentary film, Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia. The film is presented in three 26-minute chapters.

Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia will broadcast exclusively on 6abc/WPVI-TV. Parts one and two aired back to back last night, September 22. Part three will air on Sunday, September 27th at Midnight, after Pope Francis’ departure from Philadelphia.

http://ucreview.com/urban-trinity-the-story-of-catholic-philadelphia-a-first-of-its-kind-urb-p5945-1.htm#.VgNDYmdeqLg.facebook 

Nun placed on leave after abuse allegation

A Dominican nun who has served in five parishes in Greater Boston for the past 34 years has been placed on leave after being accused of sexual misconduct with a fifth-grade girl in an Indiana classroom 40 years ago.
Sister Ann Daylor, 67, director of religious education at St. Mary's Church in Georgetown in northeastern Massachusetts, appears to be the first nun to be removed for such an allegation this year. About 300 priests nationwide have been removed this year because of sexual abuse allegations.

http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/111402_nun.htm 

Years later, some charge sexual abuse by nuns

A half-century after his Catholic school boyhood, John Kerrigan says he is still haunted by the memories: a figure draped in the mantle of the church, finding sexual gratification through his fearful 12-year-old body.
Though his story echoes countless others in the ever-widening church molestation scandal, it differs in that the alleged abuser was not a priest. Rather, it was a nun.

http://www.robinwashington.com/articles/articles_nuns.html 

Torture, Assassinations, Vaccine Trial, Child TraffickingConducted By Nuns Around The World

If you research nuns and their various religious orders, you will find the hypocrite values theyclaim to uphold. There is the Sisters of Mercy who claim to stand for love.The torture, assassinations, human experiments, child trafficking and organ trafficking they havemanaged to cover up for decades is now coming to light

https://www.scribd.com/doc/53545205/Torture-Assassinations-Vaccine-Trials-Child-Trafficking-Conducted-By-Nuns-Around-The-World 

Father Delaney Collection: Magdalene Laundry

One of the most notable of Father Delaney’s films was made on the grounds of The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Convent  – a convent which housed a Magdalene Laundry – which closed its doors in 1999.
In the film we see the nuns and residents playing games in the garden, as well as performing in a play and dancing. Though the film is short but is the most extensive footage that is known to have been filmed inside a Magdalene Institution. The film is invaluable for the information it provides on the residents. some of whom were classed as “fallen“ women,  held here against their will as punishment for some perceived misdemeanour such as sexual  promiscuity or extra-marital pregnancy.  The images show what the women wore, how they played, how they relate to each other, the nuns and to the filmmaker, a priest.

http://ifiplayer.ie/father-delaney-collection-magdalene-laundry/ 

What’s Religious about the Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests and Nuns?

Scholars analyze Catholic Church Abuse and Tools to promote Accountability

​ HARTFORD, CT, March 20, 2012 – Sexual abuse of children, while not exclusive to the Catholic Church, may be more widely prevalent due to the doctrine and practices of Catholicism, according to Robert Orsi ’75, Professor of Religion and the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, and Terry McKiernan, founder and president of BishopAccountability.com. 

http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/pages/Abuse-of-Children-by-Priests-and-Nuns.aspx

The stolen children: Abuse scandals, thefts of newborns contribute to increased distrust in Chilean church

Santiago, Chile  Officials in Santiago, Chile, are investigating a series of cases in which newborn babies were purportedly stolen from the poor and given to the rich over many years' time, mostly in the 1970s through the '90s. At least half a dozen Catholic sisters and one of the country's most popular priests have been implicated in these long-hidden crimes. The following is the final article in a three-part series that looks at how this appropriation of children happened and how it stayed secret for so long. Read part one and part two.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/stolen-children-abuse-scandals-thefts-newborns-contribute-increased-distrust