Not much said about the Catholic Orphanage's for the Canadian Indians children that sued the Church in the 1980's and won a huge amount of money in court but to this day has never been paid to the victims.
I worked with a man who was part of this and when he told me what he and his family went through I was appalled.
This man was 3 years old when the Canadian Government removed him and 11 other siblings from their home when their parents died in an accident. They were placed in an orphanage run by the Church.
The family was NOT Catholic but the Church agreed to take them in.
This huge family had lived on some kind of reservation and adhered to the the old ways.
The [Tribe] for a better word was not large and could not afford to support the number of orphans so off they went , the oldest was 17, my friend was the youngest.
He told me that as the church was to support them rather then the government everything the family owned was confiscated to be sold by the church to help with their upkeep.
The 17 year old was not included in the mix, he was sent off with the clothes on his back never to be heard from again. Next in line a sister of 16 that disappeared never to be heard from again . The 15 year old brother hung himself. His next brother was found drowned in a field pond.
That is 4 siblings just gone from the family with both parents in less then 2 years leaving 8 little kids in the care of the Church.
Like something out of Charles Dickins these kids were in a living Hell.
As young as 3, if a child ,even if on their first night there traumatise by events wet the bed they were spanked.
Some of the boys were called out of bed at night to go to Father so and so's rooms for Prayer Study. They came back later bleeding and crying.
The Indian kids got the worse of it, if for any reason they spoke to each other in Tribal language, they were beaten. If any of them dared to celebrate their family's holidays that were not Catholic got the belt.
The sisters were in an strange position, the plain ones had no problems but 2 of them were beautiful when they arrived but not when they left. The Nuns were jealous and perhaps sex starved.
What ever, only 4 children out of a dozen from that family were able to survive and go on with a life carrying all that bagage.
What can one expect when people try to live a sexless life. This is not natural and perhaps a perversion unto itself.
What can one expect from humans that believe that they can go against the law of nature and feel bad about it but be forgiven once a week.?----------
