Woman Accuses Nun of Sexual Abuse

FOX News ^ | 8.01.2003 | AP

[RedBloodedAmerican]

The archdiocese recently offered a $25.7 million settlement to the more than 200 victims who have previously filed suits

$128k and no apology, and no jail time?

[homeschool mama]

Dear Lord...

[lilylangtree]

If priests can abuse little boys, then nuns can abuse little girls. Perverted queers galore, sheesh!

[sheik yerbouty]

This is beginning to remind me of Aldous Huxley's book, "The Devils of Loudon" in which multiple false charges were brought, and many lives destroyed.

[katze]

Finally found one you like, eh?

You know, RBA, no matter what another religion/faith does, I see no need to trot about bashing. I love my Catholic faith, and know many good priests and nuns--sadly, these people are human and have human flaws and faults, just like you and me. The guilty should be punished, no doubt, but I hate to see anyone making a game out of seeking out these issues for the purpose of bashing.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

The we better not post any articles on any rape or abuse, because we certainly don't want to bash anyone, do we?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

The = Then.

[xm177e2]

This is beginning to remind me of Aldous Huxley's book, "The Devils of Loudon" in which multiple false charges were brought, and many lives destroyed.

What makes you think the charges are false? Enough priests have admitted to them that it's obvious SOMETHING was going on. Enough of the demonic bishops admitted to transferring priests who had admitted to them they had molested children in their care to other locations where they still had access to children but no one knew they were a molester.

[katze]

At least not continue to make a habit (or sport) of it.

[jed turtle]

25 million for 200 victims?

the Penobscot Indian Nation in Maine only got $25 million and some scattered back land townships in the 1970s, thanks to Pres. Carter, to settle their legitimate claim to 2/3s of the whole state granted to them by General George Washington for their alliance during the Revolutionary War. They should have been more careful about who they let victimize them...

[ladysusan]

I wonder how many people know about the way some Catholic nuns treated some unwed mothers back in the 1960s....The Irish nuuns have taken responsibility for their despicable treatment of women and children in the past...will the American nunnies ever do the same? A person can only hope. Well, here's my hope.....that the dam may be about to break. Everyone into the lifeboats!!

[xm177e2]

The guilty should be punished, no doubt, but I hate to see anyone making a game out of seeking out these issues for the purpose of bashing.

It should be a game; consider it a form of big-game hunting. If you can bring down a child molester before s/he can attack anyone else, that should be worth a lot more than shooting some defenseless animal. The hunters who bring down real predators should be showered with respect, and the victims of church bureaucracy should be showered with money. (by "victims of church bureaucracy," I mean victims who were attacked by molesters who were transferred by higher-ups within the church, instead of being fired.)

Once the Catholic Church gets the message it can no longer allow its employees to molest children with impunity, this will come to an end. Until then, the victims won't be silent.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

What about the statute of limitations?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Do you think there may be a reason we see so much abuse within the RCC being reported in the news? Maybe...maybe...it really exists. And people shirking it by blaming it falsely on "those who hate the Catholics" are just as responsible by their sticking their heads in the sand. "Well, it's not bothering me, so the people complaining about it must be the ones causing trouble".

For some reason, that just doesn't quite fit.

Maybe some little boy who has experienced this form of abuse wouldn't see my post as making sport.

[danmar]

The suit alleges that Sister Mary Helen Thieneman, a counselor at St. Margaret Mary School in Louisville, sexually abused Dessommes, a fourth-grader, in the 1974-75 academic year.

...and it took aprox 18+ Years to figure it out and file a complaint? Further more this whole thing is moot since the SCOTUS allready ruled on the statue of limitation.

[Ciexyz]

I can see why the nun in question asked to transfer to a job that didn't involve contact with children. If the charges were false, she must have been devastated.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I wondered about that, too. Why the wait? Shame or embarrassment?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Maybe. But if the charges were true, would she have been moved, too?

[ladysusan]

I work with women whose children were fraudulently and coercively removed from them by adoption agencies in the 1960s. Some of the biggest offenders were nuns. Reading these mothers' first hand accounts would just break your heart. The damage has been life long for many of them.
It took most of them years and years to even recover enough that they could speak publicly about the degredation and humiliation, not to mention the irresolvable grief of losing one's child for no good reason. Priests and especially nuns were not friends , not most certainly not Christians in their dealings with these women.
They have a lot to answer for.