Adoption case study: ‘It’s a tragedy I wasn’t given my birth cert’

I don't know how many times I tried... to look for my mother in New Zealand... each time they blocked it... saying my mother was dead... or that they could not find her... why were there so many lies told to us... they changed my name... and left me with a number 61...
you think that it does not hurt... not knowing that your mother was so close... and yet not to be able to call her... your mother... as a child that was all that I wanted... a mother to hold me... a mother to run to...  Ann

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David Kinsella was illegitimate child number 1629 at St Patrick’s mother-and-baby home in the late 1950s.

For years, it was the only information he had about his identity. His request for information about his birth mother ran into brick walls of State-sanctioned secrecy.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/adoption-case-study-it-s-a-tragedy-i-wasn-t-given-my-birth-cert-1.2299062?fb_action_ids=10205261757568843&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=.VgDkEQmXEhQ.like 

Irish Adoption Bill surpasses expectations of mother and baby home survivors

Ireland is to allow thousands of adopted people access to their records for the first time in new legislation proposed by Irish Children’s Minister James Reilly.

Under international law, adopted people have the right to establish their identity but until now, people adopted in Ireland, including those sent for adoption in secret or illegally through an Irish Catholic institution, have had no automatic right to their birth records or access to services that will allow them to trace their family history.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/irish-adoption-bill-surpasses-expectations-of-mother-and-baby-home-survivors 

Anguish has never healed for Natives physically, sexually abused at St. Ignatius mission

T. IGNATIUS - The small brick mission is a jewel, stunning in its setting at the foot of the Mission Mountains. "I want to be here," says Garry "Bob" Salois, "the day an earthquake brings this place down."

Its 58 striking frescoes, painted by an Italian Jesuit who was self-taught, include a life-size image of St. George slaying a dragon with a hideous human face.  "The dragon's face," says Francis "Franny" Burke, "should be Mother Loyola."

http://missoulian.com/news/local/anguish-has-never-healed-for-natives-physically-sexually-abused-at/article_69bdf266-8f27-11e0-aa65-001cc4c002e0.html 

See How The Nun Brutally Abusing A Sick Child

See how the nuns caring for disabled children in a nursing home in City Studzieniczna in Poland -near Citu Augustow in Poland. For the media 15.10.2009 got a video recorded by tourists, where you can see, like a nun brutally abusing a sick child.
The DPS Studzieniczna lives in 50 children with cerebral palsy, Down's disease, autism, physical disability. Base leads Congregation of Franciscan Sisters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnpE1slmw0Q 

Images to console sexual abuse victims

Today, the National Survivors Advocates Coalition feels the need to present images that we hope will console abuse survivors and their families and combat the onslaught of images of Pope Francis streaming across television screens.
Judy Jones, John Pilmaier, Joelle Casteix, Sister Maureen Turlish, Becky Ianni, and David Lorenz have taken to the streets in strong and determined witness of the truth. To speak for survivors. To banish the “it’s history” approach of the hierarchy and its pontiff.

https://cruxnow.com/papal-visit/2015/09/27/images-to-console-sexual-abuse-victims/ 

Child sex abuse inquiry: Rockhampton priest 'raped me well over 100 times',

A witness at a child sex abuse inquiry says she was raped "well over 100 times" by a priest at St Joseph's Neerkol Orphanage Rockhampton in central Queensland.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard the treatment of children at the orphanage was "vicious and sadistic", while an earlier inquiry found hundreds of children were sexually abused, beaten and forced into hard labour there.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-14/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-neerkol-orphanage-rockhampton/6391002 

Why are Catholic Nuns so mean?

Iam writting a family book about our family from as far back as I can go. One of the questions I have is for the Catholics of the forums. Why are Nuns so mean? My grandmother, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles cousins ect ect, were mostly raised in the Cotholic Missions on different Indian Reservations. The one thing that I have found from talking to them and from past stories they have told me before they died was the Nuns of the Caotholic Missions were always mean and abusive to the children. My Grandmother has told me many stories of the evil nuns.
 One that stands out is the story of a boy who had become very ill. I don't think my grandma knew exactly what he was sick with but she told me that the Nuns had NO empathy for a sick child. The mission had boys dorm and girls dorm and behind the dorms outside was a small creek that ran behind the buildings and through the woods. The Nuns had been punishing this boy for not doing his chores and on that fateful night he was murdered by the Nuns. The Mother Teressa took him to the creek behind the dorms and drug him through the cold water until he died. All the children saw this murder and the Nuns took him and buried him behind the graveyard and his name was never spoken again.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/199186-why-are-catholic-nuns-so-mean/ 

Children at Derry care homes were made to eat vomit, inquiry told

Children were forced to eat their own vomit and bathe in disinfectant at residential care homes run by nuns, the UK's largest public inquiry into institutional child abuse was told on Monday.
During evidence on the behaviour of nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth order at two Catholic church-run children's homes in Derry, the inquiry heard that children were beaten for bedwetting and had soiled sheets placed on their heads to humiliate them.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/27/children-derry-care-homes-inquiry 

Former resident of Belfast children's home describes 'sadistic' nuns

Some Catholic nuns at a children’s home in the North were sadistic bullies, a former resident has claimed.
A “bleak, harsh and cruel” atmosphere was described by alleged victims at two properties in Belfast run by the Sisters of Nazareth Order, a lawyer told a public inquiry.  More than 100 witnesses from Nazareth House and Nazareth Lodge have come forward to the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, headed by a former judge.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/former-resident-of-belfast-childrens-home-describes-sadistic-nuns-656784.html

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2011 – Laundry, by Louise Lowe

By staging her play in a former Magdalene laundry the playwright compels the audience to inhabit the haunted spaces of Irish history.  As a child growing up in Dublin’s north inner city Louise Lowe was warned by her mother that if she was bold she’d end up in the Gloucester Street Magdalene laundry. 

And Lowe did eventually end up in the laundry building on what is now Sean McDermott Street, formally known as the Monastery of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge. Just a few minutes’ walk from O’Connell Street, it closed in 1996 but is inert and intact, a looming relic of a system of mass incarceration. In 2011 Lowe and her collaborators at Anu Productions occupied the building to create one of the most powerful pieces of contemporary Irish theatre, Laundry.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/modern-ireland-in-100-artworks-2011-laundry-by-louise-lowe-1.2793624 

When Silence Falls

The Waterford Memories Project and the School of Humanities at W.I.T. invite you to ‘When Silence Falls’, a public event taking place at the College Street Campus, Waterford Institute of Technology. This event will commemorate the former site of St Mary’s Good Shepherd Laundry and St. Dominic’s Industrial School, and the women and children who were contained in these spaces. 

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/when-silence-falls-tickets-22652196329?aff=es2 

Call over submissions on Mother and Baby Homes

Advocacy groups assisting people affected by Ireland's treatment of unmarried mothers and their children have urged the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to be proactive in inviting submissions to its key investigation committee.
Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and the Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA) say they have discovered that people who thought they had made a submission for the purpose of the commission's investigation had in fact just met with the body's confidential committee.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0728/805544-mother-and-baby-homes-commission/