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el_bryanto

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9. Obviously this is a terrible story

Fri Jun 6, 2014, 09:00 AM

Jun 2014

And the Catholic Church and civil authorities should do a full investigation and punish those responsible. And they probably won't (the Catholic Church at least probably won't).

I agree that all of these crimes should be investigated - but I've also been around DU long enough to know that the presence of the Catholic Church is going to give this story extra legs. A story about a civil orphanage doing similar things wouldn't receive the same level of interest.

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Hey! They were baptized. jwirr Jun 2014 #43

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Today, yes. Xithras Jun 2014 #36

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