Immediate ReleaseApril 27, 2010

Jonathan Levy, Esq.1629 K Street NW Suite 300Washington DC 20006 USATel/Fax 1-202-318-2406chambers@brimstoneandcompany.comwww.brimstoneandcompany.com

Canadian Orphans Demand Compensation forSexual Abuse and Torture at the hands of Catholic Church

Washington DC:The well documented but now largely forgotten Duplessis Orphans case iswidely recognized as the largest case of institution-based youth sexualabuse, torture, murder and exploitation in Canadian history. There are about3000 survivors, who as children were wrongfully put into Catholic Churchrun orphanages and psychiatric institutions. While victims have receivedsome minor compensation from the government – the victims of Catholic

Church orders remain largely uncompensated for sexual abuse, torture, andhuman experimentation suffered at the hands of priests and nuns. Now theywant an apology and justice from the Catholic Church which has so faravoided liability for its crimes.Rod Vienneau a world renowned advocate for the Duplessis Orphans andinternational law expert Dr. Jonathan Levy are seeking to fashion a remedyfor the surviving orphans abused by Catholic religious orders and dioceses.According to Levy, several of the Roman Catholic orders implicated operateand operated in the United States and are subject to US jurisdiction: “This isyet another horrific chapter in the ongoing abuse scandal in the CatholicChurch – the organizational perpetrators must be held accountable for theircrimes against children.” One of the organizations identified as being behindthe sadistic abuse is the Little Franciscans of Mary, a Roman Catholic orderlong resident in Worcester, Massachusetts,The victims’ testimonies however tell the true story of the cover up and why justice is now required:Myrian was locked up in a cell in the St. Julien hospital, one day at the ageof 16, Myriam in despair stopped eating in an attempt to die. A nun noticedthat she didn't touch her porridge, the Nun ordered Myriam to eat herporridge or she would shove a mouse down her throat, when Myriam refusedto eat her porridge, the Nun went out, came back with orderlies who forciblyrestrained Myrian and holding her mouth open, the Nun then shoved themouse down Myriam's throat.Myriam's brother 4 years old was locked up at the Sainte Anne psychiatrichospital, in Baie St Paul, Quebec, run by The Little Franciscans of Mary.Myriam states that the nuns killed her little brother of 4 years old and has aliving witness orphan who remembers this little boyClarina was sexually abused by Nuns at the St. Julien Hospital, she would beput in a straitjacket and attached with a collar around her neck and tied downon a steel bed during the abuse. In order to justify Clarina's transfer from anOrphanage to a psychiatric Hospital at the age of 11 years old, the RomanCatholic order fabricated a false death certificate.