Native American Church Abuse Lawsuit Dismissed

[seemslikeadream]

11/15/2004

....

Lawyers for the former students on South Dakota reservations, says the ruling simply means the lawsuit will be re-filed against the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The students say they were sexually, physically and mentally abused by Catholic priests and nuns who ran the schools during much of the 20th century. Their legal team will use a treaty from the 1800s to try to prove the case.

The new lawsuit will be filed next month. It will ask for 25 billion dollars in damages. The students are also suing the Catholic church.
more
http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail4514.cfm?ID=22,35996

[JI7]

1. hypocrites

going after gay marriage and abortion yet do nothing about problems which ACTUALLY HARM people in their own church. i hope they have to pay up for hurting the kids.

[riverwalker]

2. sounds like Abu Ghraib

from the descriptions of the abuse. Horrible. Those same Xtian moral values.

http://www.dlncoalition.org/dln_issues/2003march12.htm

"The physical beatings and sexual abuse were justified by school teachers, administrators and officials as a means to ‘send the devil out' of the Native American children," according to the lawsuit."

[Kolesar]

3. "Killed the children" ?!

Schools controlled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and churches used violence and abuse against the students and sometimes even killed the children, the suit said.