THE TRIAL OF SISTER ALPHONSO ALSO
KNOWN AS MARIE DOCHERTY FROM NAZARETH HOUSE STARTS ON 06/04/1999
THIS INFORMATION I HAVE
TAKEN FROM A SCOTTISH REPORT....
PLEASE
SUPPORT ME IN MY GOAL FOR AN APOLOGY FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR THEIR APPAULING TREATMENT OF CHILD ABUSE TO ME AND ALL FORMER
CHILDREN OF NAZARETH HOUSE HOMES WHO WERE ABUSED WITHIN NAZARETH HOUSE HOMES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. ALSO FOR THE CHILDREN WHO
NEVER MADE IT IN THIS WORLD BUT PERHAPS FOUND A QUIETER PLACE TO REST THEIR VERY WEARY HEADS AND END THEIR VERY MANY SILENT
TEARS & MISERY...
PLEASE I DO ASK THAT YOU SIGN MY PETITION/GUESTBOOK
BEFORE LEAVING MY SITE. I THANK YOU
LET US ENDEVOUR
TO HELP IN WHATEVER WAY WE CAN TO BREAK THIS AWFUL SILENCE IN OUR SOCIETY AND START BY STAMPING OUT THE ABUSE IN OUR WORLD
TO OUR CHILDREN WHO ARE THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY!!! CHILDREN ARE INNOCENT PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE THEM WHEN THEY ARE CRYING
THEIR MANY SILENT TEARS AND DO LISTEN TO THEIR AGONISING PLEAS PLEASE HELP THEM FROM A WORLD FULL OF COLDNESS AND DARKNESS
AND BRING TO THEM SOME SUNSHINE & MANY RAINBOWS!!!!!!!!!
I THANK YOU
WITH LOVE
Maria
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UK THE TRIAL REPORTS
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06/04/99-Nun charged with child abuse
Sister Alphonso faces 23 charges of
cruelty
A nun has appeared in court charged
with child abuse at children's homes run by the Catholic Church.
Sister Alphonso - alias 57-year-old Marie Docherty -
is accused of cruelty against 23 girls between 1962 and 1980.
The charges, presented at Aberdeen
Sheriff Court, allege child abuse at Nazareth House bases in Aberdeen and Midlothian.
It has been alleged that the children,
aged between two and 17, were subjected to cruel and unnatural treatment.
Sister Alphonso denies the 23 allegations
on indictment, including beating girls with hairbrushes, toys and cutlery, dragging them by the hair, and force-feeding them,
all causing injury.
Case postponed
Sheriff Alexander Pollock granted
a defence motion to postpone the case until later this year.
The Poor Sisters of Nazareth ran children's
homes in Glasgow and Lanarkshire as well as in Aberdeen and Midlothian.
The Aberdeen Nazareth base, which
is given as Sister Alphonso's address, was founded in 1872 and at one time housed more than 300 children.
It became an old people's home in
1982, caring mainly for elderly women... A report of the court case taken from a Scottish paper on the first day of trial
proceedings....
I was placed into care at Nazareth
House Cardonald Glasgow from the age of two until I was eleven and then I was placed into care at Aberdeen from the age of
eleven until I was fifteen and while I resided at Aberdeen Sister Alphonso was there and yes I suffered child abuse at Glasgow
and Aberdeen....
16/10/00-Nuns named in claims
Nazareth House in Aberdeen
Fifty nuns have been named in more
than 400 compensation claims from former residents of Nazareth House homes in Aberdeen and Midlothian.
The cases have
been formally lodged at the Court of Session following the conviction last month of Sister Marie Docherty on four charges
of cruel and unnatural treatment.
A total of 420 men and women
allege they were abused while children in care at the homes between the 1940s and 1970s.
Marie Docherty:
(Sister Alphonso)
Admonished
Their lawyer, Glasgow-based
Cameron Fyfe, expects the first of 11 test cases to be heard late next summer against the Sisters of Nazareth, the Roman Catholic
order of nuns which ran the homes....
We the former children from Nazareth are still waiting and it is now 22/11/01....
