CHILD ABUSE BY NUNS

There have been many reports of sexual and physical abuse of children by nuns.

1. In 2009, the Sisters of Mercy offered to pay "a further €128m (£117m) to compensate for decades of abuse in its schools and orphanages."

"The compensation offer to the Irish education department is by far the largest from 18 orders of Catholic priests, brothers and nuns found guilty of chronic child abuse...

"A nine-year state investigation ruled that all the orders permitted and covered up endemic rape, molestation, beatings and mental cruelty in their children's institutions."

Sisters of Mercy to compensate child

2. The Kollenberg orphanage in Sittard was run by German Carmelite nuns.

"Bedwetters were forced to stand absolutely still, wearing nothing but their dirty underwear over their head.

3. "At a sanatorium run by Franciscan nuns in Bunde, naughty children were put in a tub filled with ice cold water, a punishment applied in other places as well."

Catholic nuns also abused children :: archief nrc.nl

4. The Poor Sisters of Nazareth are nuns who have looked after children in the order's dozens of homes in Britain; and in their many homes around the world.

Claims of sexual and physical abuse by the nuns have come from around the world.

Nuns 'abused children' - News - The Independent

In 1997, dozens of former residents of homes in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Midlothian and Kilmarnock claimed they had suffered vicious beatings and sexual abuse.



In 1998, a report was published into allegations of abuse at one of the order's homes in Queensland, Australia, over a 90-year period. 

The report told of how one girl, Helen Carter, had her legs burnt with a red-hot poker.

Vera Willshire was beaten so badly she had to stay in the infirmary for five weeks.

To hide injuries from visitors, children were put into a "black hole" without bedding, ventilation or light.

According to the report:

"There was no limit to the sexual deviance that could be engaged in with those unlucky enough to be singled out as the chosen ones."

Nuns 'abused children' - News - The Independent

5. The Magdalene Laundries were run by nuns.

Young girls were sent to live in these asylums which operated in several parts of the world.

Since 2001, the Irish government has acknowledged that girls in the Magdalene laundries were victims of abuse. 

"Until well into the twentieth century, girls deemed to be 'difficult' – because they were sexually active, or sexually abused, or simply poor – were sent to laundries by their families or the state. Despite having committed no crime, they were not allowed to leave the institutions and were forced to work for no pay, making them literally slaves. Many women spent their entire lives there."

Depressing but not surprising: how the Magdalene Laundries got ...

CATHOLIC CONCENTRATION CAMPS?

Slave labour.

Mary Norris was a teenage servant in Kerry in Ireland.

She took a forbidden night off.

As a punishment, she was sent to a Catholic institution, 'the Magdalene laundry', an 'asylum' in Cork.

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Girls in the Magdalene Asylums were sometimes sexually abused.

The Catholic Church ran 'Magdalese Asylums' in Europe and America.

These asylums were for women and girls in difficulty.

In the UK, a 1997 Channel 4 documentary Sex in a Cold Climate interviewed former inmates of 'Magdalene Asylums' in Ireland.

They testified to continued sexual, psychological and physical abuse.

The reports of sexual abuse in Ireland involved not just Catholic (Magdalene) institutions but also Protestant (Bethany) and State-run Irish Industrial schools.

A Magdalene Asylum, a bit like a Nazi concentration camp.

The Catholic church has reportedly been involved in the CIA's 'Monarch' brainwashing programme, which has involved the torture of lots of children.

"The following article ... provides ... insight into the religious ideology that initially allowed the practices that make up the Monarch Project to flourish...

"The continuing complicity of the Church in covering up child sex trafficking and other institutionalized forms of torture remains, for the most part, undocumented."

The Catholic Church ran 'Magdalese Asylums' in Europe and America.

Suppressed history of the Magdalene asylums: early template for Monarch programming - watchingthewatchers


The article is from The Guardian, 8 June 2011, and is by Mary Raftery:

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"The nuns had been dabbling on the stock exchange.

"When a company they had invested in went bust, they decided to sell off a portion of their Dublin land holdings to cover the losses...

"The land contained a mass grave.

"It was full of 'penitents', the label attached to the thousands of women locked up in Ireland's Magdalene laundries...

"It emerged that there were 22 more bodies in the grave than the nuns had listed...

"Over one-third of the deaths had never been certified.

"The nuns did not even appear to know the names of several of the women...

"All had died in the service of the nuns, working long hours in their large commercial laundry for no pay, locked away by a patriarchal church and society...

"The United Nations Committee Against Torture (Uncat) ... criticised the Irish government for refusing to acknowledge the pain and abuse suffered by women incarcerated in the laundries, the last of which closed in 1996...

"Ireland locked up more of its citizens per capita than anywhere else in the world – not in prisons, but in psychiatric hospitals, Magdalene laundries and industrial schools. Anyone who did not fit within the cruelly narrow definition of good behaviour was in danger..."

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