Canadian Orphans Demand Compensation for Sexual Abuse and Torture By Catholic Church
Special News Release To The Arctic Beacon
Washington DC:
The well documented but now largely forgotten Duplessis Orphans case is widely recognized as the largest case of institution-based youth sexual abuse, torture, murder and exploitation in Canadian history. There are about 3000 survivors, who as children were wrongfully put into Catholic Church run orphanages and psychiatric institutions.
While victims have received some minor compensation from the government – the victims of Catholic Church orders remain largely uncompensated for sexual abuse, torture, and human experimentation suffered at the hands of priests and nuns. Now they want an apology and justice from the Catholic Church which has so far avoided liability for its crimes.
Rod Vienneau a world renowned advocate for the Duplessis Orphans and international law expert Dr. Jonathan Levy are seeking to fashion a remedy for the surviving orphans abused by Catholic religious orders and dioceses.
According to Levy, several of the Roman Catholic orders implicated operate and operated in the United States and are subject to US jurisdiction: “This is yet another horrific chapter in the ongoing abuse scandal in the Catholic Church – the organizational perpetrators must be held accountable for their crimes against children.” One of the organizations identified as being behind the sadistic abuse is the Little Franciscans of Mary, a Roman Catholic order long resident in Worcester, Massachusetts,
The victims’ testimonies however tell the true story of the cover up and why justice is now required:


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