Ann Thompson

These should be required reading for anyone entering into the Child Care profession.

Years in the two catholic church orphanages 1941 to March 1966.

1941 to 1952

To the catholic church and every one, all babies born out of wedlock were called a bastard, a word I can not stand, a baby who from the day of their birth, was to be treated without mercy, or to know of any love, from their mother, or any one. The baby was taken from the mother, put into an orphanage or adopted out, like cattle at the sale yards and from that day on, the baby would live a life of penance, to make amends for the sins, they did not commit.

In the catholic church orphanages, they were picked on, and beaten for things they did not do, they were put down and dressed in sacks, it was the clothes of the unwanted children, in the catholic church system, in Christchurch New Zealand. They had no one looking out for them, so they were the unlucky ones, to be picked out, to be abused and sexual abused. They had no voice, or dare to say anything in their defense, they were children born with their mother's sins on their souls, so these children, had double the penance to do, their mother's, as well as their own.

Saint Vincent De' Paul, force me out, from my mother's arms and then took me to Christchurch, to a Catholic church Orphanage, run by the Good Shepherd order of nuns, which was a run off from the Magdalene Laundries, where I was to stay until I was 10 years old. My life was to change and become a living hell on earth, full of abuse and sexual abuse from the age of 18 months old and to continue throughout my life in the two orphanages.

The sexual abuse has scared me for life and no amount of counseling will, take the pain away, the damage was already done to me, from that first night, they sat on me, and tortured me, while I cried within myself, because if they heard a word out of my mouth, I would be thrashed after wards. They still thrashed me, and then locked me in the broom cupboard, after the three lady workers, had finish with my body. this sexual abuse and abuse, was a nightly ritual, done to me and other children most nights, which always started off, with one of the ladies, scratching her feet on the wire of my bed. They also did things to us, during the day times as well, when we were sitting on our potties in a row, on the floor of the bathroom.

I knew what was going to happen to me, so I would try to hide under my blanket, which never worked. They use to say, that a child had to be seen and not heard, now I know why they kept saying that to us, it was, so that our screams would not be heard within, or outside those red brick walls.

Even when we did scream, no one helped us, we were the devils children, a child of the devil, the devil's daughters, so who would come to save us and pull us out of the arms, of the demons, who were possessed with an evil spirit and very skilful in their abuse and sexual abuse to us children.

1952 to 1966.

I was then sent to Nazareth House, and here too the abuse was to go on, as if it was a every day happening, which the nuns did to defenseless children, such as, the children who had no one, looking out for them. The naked beatings, laying on my back and then my front, tied to the four bedpost most nights, was to begin within, the two months of being sent there. My cries for help, only made them, more aggressive towards me, they would say that they were doing this to me, to get the devil out of my soul and that they had to get my mother's sin out of me.

The sexual abuse of children, had scarred us for life and we have carried our horrid secret, within us for years, because to tell of what the nuns, priest and their workers, did to us, was a worse sin against God and the church, that any one could commit to children.

To all Bishops, priest and nuns, who as they say, did not see, or hear our cries of help, in the catholic church orphanages worldwide, we are telling the truth, the nuns had two sides to them, which they still have, we the children, saw the bad side of these men and women of God, while people from the outside, only saw, what these nuns and priest, wanted them to see.

You do not know the length, these men and women of God will go to, to keep the truth from coming out. We do. We knew these men and women of God so well and their lies.

Why so much cover up in the church still, about the sex abuse of little children? We need to heal. You have to stand before God and you know He knows that we keep telling the truth, over and over again, but no one hears us. We will keep going, until some one out there, hears our calls for help, as it is on this earth, that these men and women of God, have to face us and tell the truth, for all to hear, before facing their maker, when their time is up and ready for them.

Mark my word, God is ready for you and you can not lie to Him.

Better a Millstone be tied around their neck and they be thrown into the depths of the sea, if anyone gives scandal to one of these, My little ones.

We must not be silence any more.

Please keep talking about the abuse of these evil nuns and priest and their workers. We must keep telling the world of what happened to us, so we can help children, who are still being abused and sexual abused, so they can get help. We must not stop, no mater what befalls us.

We must think of these children who have no voice, we must be their voice and let us be heard, for their sake. These children have no one and we know what we went through, so we must help them, by speaking out for them and with them. Ann

Babies snatched and stolen from their mother's arms in New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Ireland, Canada, the United States of America, England, Wales, Scotland, Africa, Germany, and about in every country around the world. Please forgive me if I have not written your country here and remember that you are not forgotten.

The babies where adopted out and sold to the highest bidders, some where kept to be used as slaves to the nuns and priest and abused and raped most days and nights. we started work at five years old and we were expected to do men work in a little girls and boys bodies. The nun or priest would walk behind you and if you full over you were beaten with the buckle of their belts, or what ever they had in their hands or behind their backs...

We were called sons and daughters of the devil and were thrashed every day and night for our sins and the sins of our mothers. Our mothers were raped and we were punished for being born.

Ann Free Spirit = Ann Thompson