Another Type Of Catholic School Violence & Abuse

[HARDCORE]

I just heard on the news where a new Archbishop has been appointed (Boston) to ?Get To The Bottom? of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church within that region!

Two of the areas, where priests (according to today?s news) had sexually targeted kids, were Florida and Massachusetts! Well, for the record, the town in the Bay State (Massachusetts) that had been one focus of this ?Religious Screwing? (literally) was Fall River!

This city made famous by the Lizzy Borden Axe Murders of the late 19th Century, once also boasted, according to older encyclopedias, the most illiterate population in the United States at one time! This fact was probably due to the myriad of mills, run-down tenements and seedy housing projects that the city housed! Add to this the massive alien population, many of whom, neither spoke nor read English (my grandparents included), and you begin to get the whole idea!

Getting back to the ?Fall River Churchly Sex Scandals?, let me tell you from my own experiences, that carnal activities were not the only priestly indulgences that this City should have dealt with! The savage beatings issued out by a few nuns to mere kids were un-Godly to say the least!

As a matter of fact, one nun (and I still remember her name) kept a rattan (thin stick used in beatings), as well as a strap with tails, to administer punishment at will to mere elementary school children!

Two separate incidents that I was privy to was-

1- An older nun on steroids (or so it seemed) once entered my classroom (5th grade) with a young girl. The girl (whom I did not even know) pointed at me and said that I had called her mother a name in the schoolyard? The nun asked no questions of me, promptly closed her fist and gave me a right hook across the jaw, immediately bringing tears to my eyes and bells to my ear!!

It was later learned that the young lady had confused me with another Portuguese kid! ?I guess to some people, we all look alike!?? LOL

2- The straw that broke the camel?s back, however, came while I was in 6th grade, same parochial school! I had been hit in the mouth with a bat (by accident) during a weekend baseball game, splitting open the inside of my mouth. The bloody wound required several stitches and I had the tendency after they were applied, of favoring the wound, by rub my tongue against the stitches!

Well, to make long story short, the nun who taught the class, thinking that I was chewing gum, walked up and blindsided me with a metal-tipped yardstick, barely missing my left eye! She split me right open, and when I began to cry from the pain and through the blood, she rapped me twice more across the arms and shoulders with the same stick!

That afternoon, when my parents came to pick me up, they immediately noticed the severe damage that almost took away my eyesight, as well as the dry bloodstains on my clothing! My mother immediately rushed me to the doctors for treatment, while my father (pissed to the gunnels) went looking for the nun and the priest who ran the show! Naturally, neither could be found (both in hiding no doubt), but I was immediately withdrawn from this "Catholic Torture Chamber" and put into public school by my dad! For the record, the Church, school, nor the nun, offered an appology, and my mother, working for minimim wage in a local mill, had to foot the entire doctor's bill!!

Hell, at the time I didn?t feel like I was anything special? I had seen at least one nun that I can recall, slugging it out with a tough sixth grader, and she won hands down! I had also seen kids lashed with a strap for wetting their pants in class, after the teacher (nun) refused to allow them to go to the bathroom!

?Who in the hell created these schools anyway, someone out of Oliver Twist??

If this town of ?Hills, Mills and Chills?, or even the Catholic Church itself, would like to dispute my charges (not the only brutalities inflicted at this institution of pain, I can assure you), I am at their disposal in spades! One warning, however, I am not that small, weak child that I use to be away back then (late 40s to early 50s), nor do I stand still anymore for beatings at the hands of religious or political hypocrites!

I, like most of you my age, now have loving grandkids of my own, and times have definitely changed! I know of no-one today who fears the religious establishment as much as they did in my elementary years, or who would sit still and allow their own kids (or anyone else?s kids) to be beaten bloody, or sexually abused, by men and women of the cloth, as was sometimes the practice amidst a few schools of the past!

These were not the Dark Ages, and if indeed - ?The Truth Will Set You Free?, then the few monsters who engaged in these brutalities had better come clean. ?Either that, or may their vicious souls burn forever in Hades, along with the corrupted souls of those (no matter how highly placed) who covered for them!!

Do I remember the names of the nuns who beat the living hell out of me and other kids, you bet your holier than thou asses I do! My short-term memory and health may be shot thanks to the Army and the VA, but the scars that these "Nuns and Priests of The Modern Inquisition" left upon my hide and my soul will be there until the day that I die!

VERITAS