- A 61-year-old woman has gone public with tales of torture
at the hands of Catholic nuns.
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- Ann Thompson lived at Nazareth House in Christchurch
from ages 10 to 19 where she says she was repeatedly stripped and beaten
by nuns.
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- The nuns claimed she had the devil in her because she
was born out of wedlock, says Thompson.
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- She tells of how she was so terrified during the beatings
that she would often wet herself which brought on more abuse.
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- "They used to put my head down the toilet and flush
the chain," she says.
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- Thompson recalls how she felt during her younger years.
"I wish I was murdered. I wish someone had killed me. While I was
little, I used to go to church and ask God to take me away."
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- Thompson and at least four others are pursuing legal
claims against the Catholic Church.
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- The group is seeking more than $500,000 compensation.
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- ONE News sourced from TVNZ, RNZ, Reuters and AAP
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- http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,128933-1-7,00.html
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- From Frances - Canada
- 9-4-2
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- Oh they ARE vicious! Catholic schools here in Quebec
used to be run by nuns and I know of several people who were beaten and
abused by them IN SCHOOL (they were NOT boarding schools either but ordinary
public schools). Just glad to finally see something about it in print.
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- From Melody
- 9-5-2
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- Jeff
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- I found the article about the nuns at Nazareth House
interesting, as I believe that this story is from Australia, not New Zealand
(unless there are two Nazareth Houses with simultaneous sexual abuse charges
pending). My mother was a small child at Nazareth House at Redcliffe in
Brisbane during the forties and suffered unbearable abuse there during
that time. The Brisbane newspaper 'The Courier Mail' recently ran a feature
on this story as a number of former Nazareth House children are now suing
over the treatment they received while there. I just wanted to set the
record straight, as it sounds very much like the Redcliffe Nazareth House
in the story you printed, yet it claims to be in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Regards.
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