Nun Accused Of Threatening To Whip Students For Not Knowing Songs

[matcom]

Forget the words did you! Well NOW you'll feel GAWD'S WRATH! :eyes:

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DCF investigator Richard Manuel, who visited the campus Friday, said simply that the case was "all confidential."

A report filed with the Hernando County Sheriff's Office, however, offered some details.

According to the report, Manuel and Deputy Troy Groves went to the school May 3 to look into a complaint that Woodbury had threatened to use a "whip or a rope" to whip the sixth-graders and make them "black and blue" because they did not know the songs for a recital that evening.

Woodbury denied the allegation. When Manuel and Groves asked to speak with the students, Woodbury refused, the report said.

The diocese has a policy that requires parents to be notified whenever nonschool personnel ask to speak to their children, Murphy explained.

http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2004/05/15/Hernando/Catholic_principal_fo.shtml

[GOPisEvil]

1. Nuns like this led to a lot of ex-Catholics.

[Book Lover]

7. Ditto!

I am living proof.

[Angelus]

2. This is why I am a Lutheran. (nt)

[Spirochete]

3. From what I've heard

nuns have whipped students for a lot less over the years.

[FarmerOak]

4. The Hernardo County Whipping Nuns...

... would be an excellent name for a band.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

9. ...or a really sleazy video

nt

[Wickerman]

5. It all started in Afghanistan, then to Cuba, then Iraq - now its infiltrat

infiltrated the Catholic schools. Shame on you Mr Rumsfeld, shame on you George Bush. Just another example of how corruption by our leaders quickly taints the minds and influences the actions of even the righteous.

:eyes:

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Sounds like our crabby old nun Sister Leo.

We called her Leo the Lion.

Then, there was the formidable librarian, Sister Odelia, who just died several years ago. Anyone making noise? If you were a guy it was, "Come here, buddy." If you were a girl, it was, "Come here, Susie Q."

She terrified me.

Amazingly enough, the nun who scared us the most at the beginning of 8th grade became our absolute favorite by the end of the year. We were bereft when she left.

She brought a huge bunch of classmates to my dad's funeral when he died my last year there. I never forgot it.

[Speck Tater]

8. The nuns were always whipping the snot out of me. So what?

Child abuse by Catholic "official personel" is nothing new.

Finally, in fourth grade, I just walked out of calss one day and never went back. My folks enrolled me in public school the next day.