Saints or Sinners

B Yond

Description

Based on true events of seven children who endured the experience of being taken away from their home and placed in temporary care at St. Pettington''s Orphanage and Forster Homes, as seen through the eyes of a four to seven-year-old child.The names of the children, the author, the church, the representatives, and the locations have been changed for legal reasons and to protect the identity of the children and their families.

Sujets

• Lettres et linguistique

Informations

• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645364542
• Langue: English

Extrait

Saints or Sinners
B. Yond
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-09-30
Saints or Sinners About the Author About the Book Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgements Disclaimer Introduction Chapter 1 The Children’s Mother Chapter 2 The Children’s Father Chapter 3 Trouble in Paradise Chapter 4 Life in a Small Family Chapter 5 Growing Family Chapter 6 The Children Chapter 7 Taken or Removed Chapter 8 The Lies Begin Chapter 9 First Day in the Orphanage Chapter 10 Meeting the Other Children Chapter 11 The Trauma Continues Chapter 12 Home for Christmas Chapter 13 Farming out the Children Chapter 14 Home Again Chapter 15 School 1972 – the Hardest Lesson Learnt Chapter 16 The Change in the Children Chapter 17 The Perpetual Nightmare Continues Chapter 18 Sister – Abbess Chapter 19 Foster Care or Slave Trade Chapter 20 Broken Chapter 21 Closer to Home Chapter 22 Setting the Record Straight Chapter 23 The Sickening Truth – the Laws and Cover-Ups Chapter 24 A Different Type of Torture – the Justice System Chapter 25 The St. Pet’s Seven: Where Are They Now
About the Author

At age 50 and living the life she always dreamed of, Beth realized that the one thing stopping her from really enjoying her life was a dreaded secret which she was intimidated and bullied not to reveal by her church, her mother, and her extended family.
Refusing to carry the burden of shame, guilt, and secrecy, which was not hers to carry in the first place, and armed with facts and documented evidence that was obtained only after she threatened legal action against authorities, Beth decided to purge herself of this burden and expose the church for the deceptive cult they are – saints or sinners.
Beth is currently working on her second book, The Drover’s Princess.
About the Book
Based on true events of seven children who endured the experience of being taken away from their home and placed in temporary care at St. Pettington’s Orphanage and Forster Homes, as seen through the eyes of a four to seven-year-old child.
The names of the children, the author, the church, the representatives, and the locations have been changed for legal reasons and to protect the identity of the children and their families.
Dedication
I would like to dedicate this book to my four brothers and two sisters who endured the horrific experiences that was life at St. Pettington’s Orphanage.
I would also like to dedicate this book to the forgotten children, the stolen children, the migrant children, and the orphaned children that were never reunited with their families or never lived to tell their story.
Our story will be told and we will be heard and to HELL with those who do not believe us.
It took a lot of therapy for us to realize that WE did nothing wrong, this is not OUR shame but the shame of the church and the government authorities that knowingly and willingly allowed it to happen.
We are all good, lovable, loving, wanted, worthy, and treasured human beings.
Most of all… WE ARE SURVIVORS.
Copyright Information ©
B. Yond (2019)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher.
Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
Ordering Information:
Quantity sales: special discounts are available on quantity purchases by corporations, associations, and others. For details, contact the publisher at the address below.
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data
Yond, B.
Saints or Sinners: Based on a True Story
ISBN 9781645364542 (ePub e-book)
The main category of the book — BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019907838
www.austinmacauley.com/us
First Published (2019)
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
40 Wall Street, 28th Floor
New York, NY 10005
USA
[e-mail]
[phone]
Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the various non-profit organizations that are helping and fighting for those children who are now adults and for their many efforts in trying to reconnect them with their families.
I would like to acknowledge the investigations and legal proceedings against the Catholic Church, orphanages, and schools.
A big thank you to The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and The Catholic Church and the Royal Commission.
Lastly, I would like to thank CLAN for allowing me to use the silhouette of the orphanage on the book cover.

This story is based on the true story of six, then seven, children that endured the experience of being taken from their homes and being placed in the temporary care of St. Pettington’s Orphanage.
The names of the children have been changed to protect them and their families.
The author is writing under a pen name.
The names of the abbesses, clergy, locations, and the name of the orphanage have been changed.
The story is seen through the eyes of a child, aged between four and seven years old, and the story told and written by an adult.
Disclaimer
The Church, the religious denomination, the persons and the personal characteristics, actions, intentions, beliefs, standards, morals, and behaviors of the individuals portrayed in the writings in this book are NOT indicative of the Abbesses of Humanity, other abbesses, clergy, novice, deacons, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, popes, nuns, priests, schools, teachers, volunteers, staff, and/or their parishes, parishioners, affiliated organizations, religious denomination churches, orphanages, church practices, and/or foster care-givers and are purely the recollection of memory and experience of the author; the similarities are purely coincidental.
The siblings, family, friends, relatives, and the events experienced that are portrayed in this book are not indicative of all siblings, family, friends, and relatives, their current family status, lifestyle, morals, standards, beliefs, and behaviors.
I have tried to recreate events, locales, and conversations from my memories of them. In order to maintain their anonymity in some instances, I have changed the names of individuals and places. I may have changed some identifying characteristics and details such as physical properties, occupations, and places of residence.
This book is a true story of my personal life experience and a correlation of stories told to me by my mother and father which are believed to be true.
Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.
Introduction
In order to understand the magnitude and power of the Church, it is necessary to give some background and history of this important entity.
The Church is also known as the largest Christian Church with more than 1.28 billion members worldwide, and is the oldest religious institution in the western world.
The Church claims to have played a prominent role in the history and development of the Western civilization headed by a hierarchy and was supposedly founded by Jesus Christ over 2017 years ago.
The Church ‘headquarters’ are in Europe. This church even has a city in its own country, with its own laws and claims to be infallible and, therefore, NOT answerable to anyone.
The Church believes itself to be the doctrine of faith and morals that it declares as definitive and infallible.
The Abbess of Humanity began with the founding abbess in Ireland. The Abbess of Humanity first came to Australia in 1846. It was dedicated to serving people who suffer from injustices related to poverty, sickness, or lack of education.
In 1905, it was urged that congregations of common origin to unite so that their capacity of the vital work of Divine Church education, as well as for other ministries would be strengthened.
The institute of The Abbess of Humanity Australia (SMA) formed in December 1981.
In 2010, the congregations were asked to relinquish their independence and come together as one new congregation. In July 2011, The Abbess of Humanity commenced the first chapter of the new congregation.
The Abbess of Humanity, (1846–2011) was responsible for the administration of St. Pettington’s Orphanage from 1919 to 1976.
The orphanage was supposedly set up to care for the ‘Forgotten Australians,’ former child migrants, and the Stolen Generation’s aboriginal children, that were stolen from their parents by government and church authorities in the hope of assimilating them (against their will) into white mainstream society.
The orphanage was later renamed St. Pettington’s Home, and, after closure of the facility, the children were then sent to the residence that was named St. Pettington Homes. This organization closed completely in 1984.
The Abbess of Humanity was also affiliated with surrounding primary schools, high schools, and boarding schools in the district and diocese.
There are 25 Divine churches in the diocese.
Before the 1970s, many of the children that were placed in care were related to poverty and family breakdown as there was almost no community or government support for families in crisis or financial need, so most of whose families could not care for them, were placed in some form of out-of-home care. However, in 1970, there was a change in Australia.
The Australian government implemented social welfare programs to assist struggling families as the private an