[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

The butter box babies of Nova Scotia: http://www.canadiancrc.com/Butterbox_babies.aspx

There is no depths to which the depraved human mind will not dig. On that, Calvin was correct!

[Wallace T.]

Not just Canada and Ireland had abusive orphanages and reformatories. Florida recently closed the Florida School for Boys in Marianna, which was in operation from 1900 to 2011. Beatings, physical and sexual abuse, and a high mortality rate were commonplace there.

This is not a Catholic vs. Protestant issue as both Nova Scotia and Florida (at least until 1980 or so) were predominantly Protestant. Britain and the other Commonwealth nations had a "borstal" system of housing troubled youth under harsh conditions. The abuses are the result of institutional warehousing of children, whether run by a church group or a governmental agency.

[dsc]

“The butter box babies of Nova Scotia”

Dear God have mercy on us.