Lawsuit Alleges Widespread Abuse By Nuns At School For Deaf

HappyRambo said:
I remember Father Murphy from Deaf Community Center in Framingham, MA :(
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He was involved with other students. He was from BSD from 1978 to 1984. He was abused by the nuns and Father Murphy. His Mom wrote him a letter with pour out emotional and angry because his Mom thought BSD was great school but it was not !! His brother and Mom are extremely angry what he went through suffer during 1980's.

He is progressed to seeing an attorney Michtell Garabedian against Father Murphy and the nuns.

You can't trust with any priests or nuns nowadays ! :tears: It is very sad because many Parents put their children at the churches due to trust them.

We can't trust Daycare centers, babysitters, churches and camping, etc.... It is so scared to put any children at the place while you were going to work or vacation, etc...
 
This is one of many reasons why I don’t support to keep residential schools open!

Even students know sign languages, but usually are scared to come out and tell what had happened, or they don't know what abuse is. I have seen handful of deaf children and adults not taking interest reading the newspapers, news, and books, even magazines.

Many of the deaf students are/were victimized by fellow students, not just by staff as well, almost everywhere in the world! I was abused (not sexually) by hearing and deaf teachers (and some students) at the residential school many years ago, one of them stopped after being confronted by my mother who apparently was told by a fellow mother, I didn’t do anything about other teachers, because knowing how my mother is and she would beat the s*** out of them. Have I gotten over with those incidents? Nope! Those still traumatize me! I could start considering slamming several teachers and the school with lawsuits, but that won’t solve any problem for me! What is good enough for me is that I have stayed away from that school long enough and have no pride in that school. I am thankful that my parents never made me live at the school!

I think in order to keep residential schools open is to have social workers everywhere and have them to meet with children individually, explain what abuse is, do’s and don’ts, they may have to use dolls/pictures to give children the ideas, and report only to parents, police and social workers!

I also think this is a very good start if the government sends plain-dressed officers in to work at the residential schools and make daily reports directly to the state!
 
Yes this is sad situation. I was a former student there and was abused by a nuns. Yes I am very angery for what they did to me. It hurt alot. At one point in my life I blocked it out til I was in sophmore year and learning about child development and realized the abusive was not my fault. I finally told my mom about it last fall after the deaf social. One of the nun came up to me and started talk to me and I had to take a step or 2 back to keep the distance from her. I just make a very quick chit chat and nothing more cuz I didnt want her to know what is going on with my life since she abused me.

It is still hurt and it will be with me for the rest of my life. Those children who was sexually/physical abuse dont not deserved that kind of harsh punishment.

So I have an appt to meet the lawyer on June 1. It not gotta be easy to go thru this but I just want get it out of my chest.
 
Garabedian said some of the abuse may have been punishment for students who tried to use sign language to communicate
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It said that the abuse stopped mid-70's. I think this wasn't "res school" abuse, but more about VERY strict nuns who meted out extreme punishments for oralism. Yes, I know oralism ended late sixties but I wonder if there still wasn't an "oral is best" mentality on campus for a few years.
 
I remmy when I went to BSD in 1967 and they did have sign language but stopped a few months later only oralism 100 percent of the time. If sign language then you get punish. There is lot of deaf children who cant speak well enough let alone for those children. I can speak well like hearing person but not perfect.

They resume sign language in 1978. Rats!!!!!!!!!!1
 
Sabrina said:
He was involved with other students. He was from BSD from 1978 to 1984. He was abused by the nuns and Father Murphy. His Mom wrote him a letter with pour out emotional and angry because his Mom thought BSD was great school but it was not !! His brother and Mom are extremely angry what he went through suffer during 1980's.

He is progressed to seeing an attorney Michtell Garabedian against Father Murphy and the nuns.

You can't trust with any priests or nuns nowadays ! :tears: It is very sad because many Parents put their children at the churches due to trust them.

We can't trust Daycare centers, babysitters, churches and camping, etc.... It is so scared to put any children at the place while you were going to work or vacation, etc...
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Oh no! Murphy is accused by other person!
 
I had an appt with my lawyer yesterday and it was a long appt. and I was very nervous the whole time. But after I left I feel better to get it out of my system but still have a long way to go. Hoping for the best.
 
In Deaf history, most handicapped people get sexually abused, physically abused, verbal abused and so much more than the "non-handicapped" ppl...people who harmed those people think they can get away with it but not for long...they only think that they get away with it because those people do not seem to be smart, or can't talk or hear or even walk, etc...they think they are just a simple prey. But those people who were sexually abused and stuff, and is afraid to tell others or express their feelings about it...is that they weren't just scared...but they feel that they deserved that way and stuff...they give up hope, which is a very pathetic thing to do. NEVER give up hope, because there would always be hope for everyone, who hopes that they can change it because everything's a possiblity. NEVER give up for yourself and just let those people keep doing sickening things to you because you are only making things alot worse if you don't fight back.If you EVER tried, then it didn't work...KEEP trying. that's why I said NEVER to give up. believe in yourself and know what you are supposed to do and just stop this at once! I don't care if you fought back with a nun or priest, because they shouldn't do things that way...just teach them a lesson and make sure that they would NEVER EVER think that they can get away with such crimes like that.

Be sure to tell that your kids one day. NEVER give up hope.
 
This is one of many reasons why I don’t support to keep residential schools open!

Even students know sign languages, but usually are scared to come out and tell what had happened, or they don't know what abuse is. I have seen handful of deaf children and adults not taking interest reading the newspapers, news, and books, even magazines.

Many of the deaf students are/were victimized by fellow students, not just by staff as well, almost everywhere in the world! I was abused (not sexually) by hearing and deaf teachers (and some students) at the residential school many years ago,
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I am NOT all pro-res schools, but sexual abuse can happen almost every and anywhere. I have a book all about a mentally retarded woman who was mainstreamed and got gang-raped by some neighborhood boys. (and not just "vanilla" gang rape, they raped her with a FULL SIZE bat and broom!)
Besides in a lot of cases the res school provides a safe home since the majority of disabled kids are abused at home! Look the res school isn't perfect...but it still should be an alternative!
 
It doesnt matter where you are it is everywhere and it is better report to the police and child protective services to get help.

As I was a kid, I was confused and not knowing if it was right or wrong til I was in High School and found out it was wrong and that when I got to the point that I cant trust anybody. It is not easy to trust anybody cuz it was ruined by the nuns that I have lost my self esteem til I got it back when I went into Karate Class and now I have my self esteem to fight them what I believe that they did it wrong.
 
That's a very saddening thing to be happening. More and more corrupted people in varying fields of services. :roll:
 
Pomeranian said:
It doesnt matter where you are it is everywhere and it is better report to the police and child protective services to get help.

As I was a kid, I was confused and not knowing if it was right or wrong til I was in High School and found out it was wrong and that when I got to the point that I cant trust anybody. It is not easy to trust anybody cuz it was ruined by the nuns that I have lost my self esteem til I got it back when I went into Karate Class and now I have my self esteem to fight them what I believe that they did it wrong.
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American Chooper will be next person to seeing an attorney. Father Murphy and Nuns did mistreat and abuse him when he was little boy. That was horrible! :mad2:
 
9 More Claim Abuse By Nuns
Former Students Claim Sexual, Physical Abuse

POSTED: 12:57 pm EDT August 17, 2004

BOSTON -- Nine more people filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging they were sexually and physically abused by nuns at a school for deaf children, including one former student who said she was forced to drink the urine of another.

The plaintiffs, all of whom attended the Boston School for the Deaf, sued more than two dozen nuns and supervisors at the now-defunct school. An earlier lawsuit, filed in May by nine other people, made similar allegations.

At a news conference Tuesday, several former students described their abuse through a sign-language interpreter.

Penny Braddock said when she was 8 or 9 years old, a nun at the school lined her and other girls up in a bathroom and forced them to drink the urine of another student. A male student claims in the lawsuit that a nun forced him to perform oral sex on her.

The nuns were members of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, a congregation of more than 500 religious women who minister in the Boston area.

The order served as the faculty and administration of the Boston School for the Deaf, which was operated by an independent, nonprofit corporation until it closed in 1994.

Attorney Mitchell Garabedian said he has 80 clients altogether who claim they were abused at the school between 1936 and 1991, when they were between the ages of 4 and 17.

"They preyed upon them year after year after year, knowing these children were helpless and vulnerable," Garabedian said.

After the first lawsuit was filed in May, the Boston-based Sisters of St. Joseph promised an immediate, fair and sensitive investigation. Their attorney, William Shaevel, said Tuesday that the investigation has so far "found nothing to support these allegations."

"These cases are based upon repressed memory and they could be wrong," he said. "This has to be a thoughtful process to be sure there are no inaccuracies and respectful of the people who feel they were abused as well as respectful of the people who are accused."

The five men and four women who filed suit on Tuesday were between 4 and 15 when the alleged abuse took place between 1936 and 1984. The plaintiffs are now between 39 and 72 years old.
 
I was at the press convernce yesterday. It surely was a sad day for me. As you can see me in the pix I have a long hair with glasses standing behind a little boy.

No one deserved to be abused.
 
Pomeranian said:
I was at the press convernce yesterday. It surely was a sad day for me. As you can see me in the pix I have a long hair with glasses standing behind a little boy.

No one deserved to be abused.
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I went through horrible verbal and physical abuse at Rhode Island School for the Deaf since I was 5 years old. They put a soap bar in my mouth because I can't speak well. The teacher pulled my dress up with spank pointer stick confront whole the class. Bang my head against the wall because I did not pronounce property at the plague flag in the morning.

When I read this articles, it brings a bad flashback in my memory. Not worth for us to sue RISD because most of the teachers died !

We need to move on with our life.
 
Sabrina,

I am truely sorry to hear that you and all the other former students went thru. My heart and thought goes out to you and the former students. Hugs.
 
Im sorry to hear what you and others have been thru, Pom..I know how you feel to Pom, Sabrina and others.
I have been abused also and its kinda painful for me to discuss it so i
never told anybody except my parents..it really pained them so much and
i regretted telling them. I never told my husband either!
These people who have abused me are going to have to answer to God if they havent already. I have forgiven them but i will never forget, i cant.
 
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