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It is a shelter for young people with a name from the past that can still make you flinch: "The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children" is at the centre of a lawsuit and a controversy with allegations of physical and sexual abuse stretching back decades. The Current hears from three former residents and from the Nova Scotia government minister responsible for the file. If former residents of the place still called Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children are telling the truth, it may be more accurate to call them former victims. The home first opened in 1921 as an orphanage for black Nova Scotian children. It's intent was to give them safe shelter, but their stories of physical and sexual abuse suggest childhoods filled with fear, pain and despair. More than 100 former residents are involved in legal action, including a proposed class action suit, against the institution and the provincial government. |
I feel sorry for all the former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children who were physically and sexually abused at the home; I hope they find spiritual and emotional healing one day.
I hope those who committed the crimes are brought to justice.
The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children is run by the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada; provincial authorities knew about the alleged physical and sexuak abuse of children at the home but did nothing about it.
Well, if this was an orphanage run under the control of the Catholic Church, you can bet this news story would be front page news on all the major metropolitan dailies in the United States.
There's also no photos of the criminal perpetrators in any of the printed news stories; getting your photo on the front page of a newspaper for committing a crime is the equivalent of being placed in the stocks at the public square of a Village Green during the Middle Ages.
If the news story had involved Catholic clergy, you can bet the media coverage would have included photos of the suspects.
Read more about it:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/former-orph...ault-1.1022232
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/01/b...e/#more-306840