Ghosts of the Orphanage

Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice | Christine Kenneally

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Well, that was a reading experience. An extremely disturbing, heart wrenching, SAD AF reading experience.

I have a lot of processing to do with this one. Very well written, though.

#nonfiction #truecrime

RowReads1 I‘m reading this too. She spends a lot of time talking about her native Australia and not Vermont. I think her scope maybe too wide. 11mo

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Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice | Christine Kenneally

ā€When one of his fellow residents wet the bed, the matron draped the boy‘s wet sheets over his head and made him walk around the dormitory. As the sad little wet ghost wandered about, the other boys stood there watching and laughing, trying to trip him up. Meyer noticed that a boy would participate in the laughter until he himself wet the bed. Meyer never laughed. He was too small, and he was afraid of what would happen to him if he didā€¯.

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Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice | Christine Kenneally

There are many reasons why the orphanage system, which was once so enormous,is now so obscure.All those reasons,diverse as they are, are strung between two poles:the active concealment of crime on one end and the impact of tremendous trauma on the other.The truth-a truth I struggled to accept for years-is that the cover-up of crimes was profane,intentional,and effective.The destruction of evidence,the hiding of records,and the obscuring of facts

RowReads1 and systems and prior warnings were all carried out by people who committed criminal acts or by their colleagues,who sought to protect them or the reputation of their church.The impact of the malefactors work is evident today and remains formidable. 12mo

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