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Don't Hurt Them Anymore

(One Abused Orphan's Plea)

This video was compiled by Billy. She so wanted to help give a voice to one abuse victim in particular, Ann Thompson or Ann Free Spirit as she is known to us in our Catholica cyber community. It is yet another plea for the Catholic Church to Say Sorry not just to her but to all it's abuse victims, around the world.

Ann is but one of a number of children that were placed in Catholic orphanages in New Zealand and who were severely abused; sexually, emotionally, physically and spiritually. She does not want hate, only love and forgiveness which is the very least she deserves from the hierarchy of the catholic church.

Take heart, Ann, there are many that love you and support you - this is your story....

And further: In Ann's own words from one of the posts to us on the Catholica Forum:

Click on the Picture here to watch a movie made for me by Billy for the publishing of my book

 Say Sorry

My book, "Say Sorry", is now released by the Penguin Book publishers, Auckland New Zealand., 1st June 2009

Us innocent children in the catholic orphanages around the world WERE GIVEN HELL by the nuns and priest, which we are still living in.

We served a life sentence in a prison which we are still in and you call this a good catholic teachings. And this is why you will never see us go back to a catholic church. We are still being abused by the catholic church even today, by the way they are treating us, as we come forward to tell our stories of the abuse, which happened to us and more will come forward once my book is out there.

I hope that my book will give them the strength which they need and that, at long last they will see that they are not a lone, in their pain and shame which the catholic church put us in.

Sexual abuse of innocent children is the worst sin these priest and nuns can do to innocent children and it is us, who have gone through that shame, pain and torment of this sin, which we keep inside us, so no ones sees what we are truly feeling. We are the ones who are hurting and the catholic church goes ahead, as if she had done no wrong to us.

The pope's words of sorrow are empty, and only when he sends the priest, who the pope is hiding in Rome, back to the countries where they are to stand, before the men and women they sexual abused, will we believe that, when the pope says that he is sorry, is when he means it. The pope has done the talk many times now, with empty words, it is about times the pope does the walk and send these priest back, to face their crimes, of sexual abuse.

My Book "Say Sorry" has now brought many more men and women forward and who are now not afraid to speak out, about the
Truth, which went on, behind those red brick walls.  Ann

Billy wants to also thank Ann for her generous permission to use some images from her book and other of Ann's art work.

And a special thanks also to Archie Roach for his powerful and moving song Walking Into Doors. He himself also understands, I suspect, the suffering of such as Ann; he was one of the stolen generation who have only just recently received, finally, an open, heartfelt, official apology from the Australian government. Now the church needs to follow this secular example.