Posted on 05/21/2009 1:03:09 PM PDT by MrEdd
An abuse of faith * Font Size: Decrease Increase * Print Page: Print David Sharrock | May 22, 2009 Article from: The Australian PATRICK Walsh was two years old when he was taken to court with his two brothers, aged three and four, and a sister of six months. The crime: their mother was in an unhappy marriage and had left her husband. "She was viewed as the guilty party by church and state," Walsh says. "My father denounced her because she wanted a divorce, which was illegal. We were put in the dock, charged and sentenced for 'having a parent who does not exercise proper guardianship'.
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Hubby went to a Christian Brothers school and the kids feared the priests. They weren’t afraid to sock a kid in the nose. Not too many discipline problems, I guess.
This story was posted already two days ago from a different paper.Not more it’s the same story.
‘Are there no prisons?”
‘Plenty of prisons,’ said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
‘And the Union workhouses.’ demanded Scrooge. ‘Are they still in operation?’
‘Both very busy, sir.’
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What should I put you down for?
Nothing.
You wish to remain anonymous?
I wish to be left alone.
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