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This boarding school is closed now, but I remember being there when I was a kid. My Great Grandmother worked there as a seamstress, fixing girls clothing.
My mother and aunt both stayed in the boarding schools when growing up, but I never heard of them being assaulted (if they were, they never talked about it).
That particular boarding school in Sisseton did have long tunnels underneath that lead between buildings. I remember that, and they were kept extremely dark…I was always scared walking through those tunnels and always had a bad feeling there.
Not sure if anyone was actually molested in the tunnels or not.
"In 2010, South Dakota legislators discussed the Church’s difficulty defending against these many suits and passed a statute—written by a Church attorney and submitted as a “constituent bill”—blocking anyone over 40 from suing an institution, such as the Catholic Church, for childhood sexual abuse, though they may still sue individual perpetrators. (The South Dakota statute of limitations for physical abuse has long expired for the former students.) Since virtually all the Native plaintiffs are over 40 and some of the alleged perpetrators are dead, many observers, including Robert Brancato, director of the South Dakota chapter of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, have accused the legislature of targeting the Native cases. “The law was designed both to make things difficult for Native Americans and to help the Church,” says Brancato. In March 2011, a judge applied the statute to throw out 18 of the South Dakota boarding-school cases; the plaintiffs in those cases have filed appeals with the state’s Supreme Court."
Wow! Didn't realize that SD passed legislation protecting the Catholic Church!
Any more sauce on this?
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/24450863/casa-de-los-ninos-employee-charged-with-voyarism
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/6606#.WK92lvmLRPZ
Article written by:
Natalie Rothschild