Posted on 04/12/2024 5:26:42 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A community of Catholic monks on a reputably 'holy island' off the coast of Wales is at the centre of a major child abuse scandal going back more than 50 years.
Thousands of tourists visit Caldey off the Pembrokeshire coast each year unaware of its dark history of sex abuse against infants as young as three.
Visiting children, who have now grown to adults, say they were raped in the historic abbey, sexually abused in the ornate gardens and threatened that they would go to hell if they breathed a word to anyone back on the mainland.
This week, The Caldey Abbey estate has appointed Independent Safeguarding Consultant and former Assistant Police & Crime Commissioner for South Wales, Jan Pickles OBE to lead a 'thorough review' into historical claims of child abuse.
Speaking to MailOnline, Victim Kevin O'Connell, 61, just 10 when he was raped, claims he witnessed the 'industrial abuse' of children, some as young as three.
He put out an appeal on social media urging others to come forward to help his lifelong fight for justice.
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Good call.
Trust but verify.
Everything.
Always.
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Citing international experts, Murray called denialism “the last step in genocide.”
False accusations are also a step toward genocide.
“Denialism is violence. Denialism is calculated. Denialism is harmful. Denialism is hate,” Murray said.
What are false accusations then, especially false accusations of mass murder?
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“The former Canadian prime minister John Alexander Macdonald stated that the goal of the residential schools was ‘to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects.’
“The former Canadian deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott, is on record saying residential schools were designed to erase the Indian completely from Canadian society. Scott ran these schools for 50 years.
“It is estimated over 150,000 First Nation children were forced into these schools which were primarily controlled by the Catholic Church, although other Christian denominations operated them as well.
“The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada has estimated that over 50,000 children were killed or disappeared in these schools.
“At the same time, we see a rash of missing and murdered Indigenous women and a continued struggle of Native people in Canada against the foster care system and the prison system.”
Source:
Mass graves of Indigenous children expose colonial genocide in Canada
https://theburningspear.com/mass-graves-of-indigenous-children-expose-colonial-genocide-in-canada/
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