I would really appreciate any information from any former orphans, teachers, workers of Neerkol Orphanage, Queensland, about a Sr Rita who was at Neerkol in the 1950's. She was sent from Neerkol to St Patrick's Convent school in Mackay, in the late 50's early sixties. My brother has recently experienced another breakdown, and it was in this last episode, that the reality of what happened to him at St Patrick's Convent came flooding back. My abuse was physical and emotional, but, as well as suffering that abuse, his was far more sinister. I really need to know more about this woman now, and why she left her "beloved Neerkol" (how she referred to it). When we read of the atrocities committed in that institution on poor innocent defenceless little children, I fear that culture found it's way to St Patrick's Convent.
I always wanted to know what the other nuns were thinking as this woman caned my brother and I every Monday morning, because our parents had not gone to Church the day before. People standing by and doing nothing while innocent children were abused. They are equally culpable.
Thank you,
Marguerite Tideman

"I always wanted to know what the other nuns were thinking as this woman caned my brother and I every Monday morning, because our parents had not gone to Church the day before. People standing by and doing nothing while innocent children were abused"

This is what the Cathoic church was all about, abusing, demolising and comdeming innocent children.
Far back in my days, every Monday morning, the question was asked. "Who didn't go to Mass yesterday" the same for saints days.

These children had to stand up in front of a mixed grade class of maybe 40 odd children and admit they didn't got to mass. They were banned from sport for that week. For many children this was the only time they got to play sport because if they were poor then they couldn't

Then there was me. I had a lisp and couldn't spell so Sr. Joe lined us up behind the movable blackboard and as we moved along she strapped us for how many words we got wrong - double strap about 5 inches wide (ones the nuns wore) This happened for two years in years 3 and 4 for me. Then I got the cane across my legs because when I marched my left leg didn't march straight.

Move ahead to 1990 and a nun was my boss in a Catholic school. She was the most nasty little person I have ever come across. She didn't use the cane or strap, she used her tongue.
I wonder how I stayed a Catholic for so lone.

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Please note.

Brother John Maguire has faced eight trials on child sex abuse charges. Eight times, including yesterday, he has been acquitted, with none of the jurors ever being told of the other allegations against him. The Herald can now reveal that, due to a court ruling on the risk of contamination of evidence, a judge decided that each case against Brother Maguire had to be heard separately. The ruling followed defence claims that the students making the allegations had colluded at a school reunion in 1999.

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http://www.thecatholiccoverup.com/article.php/20080926203036608