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http://www.thefamilyschooltruth.com/Thomas_Tierney.html

 The Family Foundation School Truth Campaign NEW TESTIMONIAL

"A student even committed suicide while at the school. Unfortunately, I was one of the few people who were standing at the point where it happened...Everyone else was fed just general information. It kills me to know that this tragic event of someone's desperate pain was shut out by a bunch of money hungry clowns, who just wanted it to seem like an accident."
-Thomas T, Survivor of The Family Foundation School
Thomas Tierney - Family Foundation School Alumni Testimonials
http://www.thefamilyschooltruth.com
The Family Foundation School has a thirty year history of abuse. This is Thomas Tierney's story

Thomas Tierney

Before I go any further with a testimony, I would like to emphasize how awesome I think it is that someone finally went for broke and shed some light on this corrupt institution that a majority of us had the misfortune of attending. This school has done nothing but lied to our faces and steal from our pockets, expecting no one to catch on or rat them out. Ironically enough, the truth set us free and investigation began, thanks to the work of Jon Martin Crawford. I hope that my testimony and experience can be used to send this poor excuse for a rehabilitation center to its knees and bring this greedy group of child abusers to the just responsibility of their own actions.

I was sent to the Family School on August 20, 2003. To say the least, I was a mess. I do not deny in any way that I was a really troubled kid. I had few friends, never had much of a social life, and was really angry all the time. In order to protect my siblings and herself, my mom decided to send me away. I do not blame her for this decision. In the time that I smartened up, I realized that she really did have my best interests at heart. All of us were deceived by the same lie and I don't think that any sane parent would have put their child through this if they had known some of the things that transpired.

I had few friends in the school from the start. Being thirteen and living with a group of kids all over the age of 15 didn't help too much for my situation. I was seen as the little kid and nothing more than a burden. I was constantly having the blame put on me for things I didn't do and it seemed that no matter how hard I tried, I could never fit in with anyone at the school. Consequently, the family thought I was being too "attention seeking" and in time, I lost my rights to speak. I was put on blackout (meaning the loss of privilege of speech), put in the corner to face a wall and made to stand for hours on end, and on special occasions, given a cold soy patty on an uncooked English muffin, as a full meal.

Around the time I was there for three months in December, I was put on work sanction (taken out of school and brought outside to work in the blistering cold, hauling rocks, shoveling snow, and being made to carry them for literally, a good few miles), where every day, I lost feeling in most of my body from the cold.

A student even committed suicide while at the school. Unfortunately, I was one of the few people who were standing at the point where it happened. I can remember no such feeling of dread and fear wash over me when the reality of what had just happened sunk in. A student had just killed themselves. Our family knew the story of what happened. Everyone else was fed just general information. It kills me to know that this tragic event of someone's desperate pain was shut out by a bunch of money hungry clowns, who just wanted it to seem like an accident.

Anywho, the rest of my stay was nothing near pleasant. Around the age of 16 when all my anger had eventually burned itself out enough to control, I began to start the game, as most people refer to it as. I knew the only way out of here at this point was to be just like everyone else and god knows I had been there for so long at this point, I knew exactly how to do it. So I did it. I lay low, did just enough to eventually get some kind of status and worked my way out.

I would love to go into every little thing and nitpick the shit out of it, just like they used to do with us; (they would start yelling at us over the most pointless things like getting to class a few minutes late because of enormous responsibility given to students, then blame it on the fact that our program life was bad and we had reservations to get high when we left makes sense right?) I served a 46 month sentence at that institution, and received my freedom June 23, 2007. I could not even fathom what had just happened. I was going to live at home for the first time in four years.

Now, let's just take a quick, logical look at what has transpired over the last few years. You put a young, teenage kid, having no prior history of drugs or alcohol into a box of ex-addicts and alcoholics, beat him up emotionally, essentially, learning scattered bits and pieces of drugs, booze, whatever, then after four years of having no identity to his name, no friends to go back to, and a public school to go to in a few months, what in god's name do you think will happen?

Well, it happened. I lived at home for a few months, finished high school, then got kicked out of house for smoking weed. I was on my own again with no help at all. This school had washed all reality from me; I was stuck in the real world with nothing. I had no idea how to help myself or anything. To make a long story short, I was all over the country for about two years. I was in Arizona, New York, it was a mess.

I finally worked things out with my family and I got my own apartment. I started going to school and began to work towards a degree in music. I started seeking help for myself, but in ways that can work with me, not against me. I smoke weed as a genuine religious and therapeutic activity. I find that I can pray and control my anger , on top of being a good student, and enjoying my life.

Through all of this, I wanted to prove that even after one has physically left the school, your identity is not quickly discovered. I had that completely taken from me and have spent the last two years trying to find something that I should have found in the last six. If my experience can save someone from the suffering I endured at that school, nothing would make me happier.

My last thoughts on this are to the Ducey's and Argiros'. Your words of 'wisdom' are short sighted. You seek to find happiness through the things that you told us not to. You are by straight up definition, hypocrites. You call us liars, but according to you, if three people tell you that you're a horse, buy a saddle. You got 500 telling you that you are child abusers. Buy the saddle.

My best wishes go out to alumni and recovering students. Good luck, stay up, and we will finish this place forever.

-Tom Tierney, (2003-2007)

P.S. The truth DID come out in the wash.


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This is a story that I can relate to it feels genuine and productive.

Danny

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This should be something.....

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NEW YORK (AP) — The uproar caused by reports that, as an archbishop years ago in Germany and later as a Vatican cardinal, Benedict and his aides were slow to defrock abusive priests, cannot be explained as the church equivalent of Watergate with the pope in the role of U.S. president.


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Tell the Pope to go...

Please tell me why these abusive corrupt clergy, who care more for politics then young Johnny can still walk this earth unmolested themselves. Oh that's right lets just go back 100's of years to the Christian Crusades, maybe to Pope Pious...ect. They have been raping this land for centuries in the name of God.
Damn Catholicism......only by birth, never by will.
Danny

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Michael Sweeney
It will be a wonderful day in history when the church collapses. Institutionalizing spirituality in the form of religion is one thing, but the dogmatic and bureaucratic extreme to which the Vatican has taken this process has only been a monkey wrench in the cogs of human progression and evolution. Centuries of violent crusades, forced worship in foreign lands, open prejudice against other faiths as well as things like sexual preference, and now in the last fifteen years - widespread pedophilia.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8602644.stm

Sunday, 4 April 2010 13:44 UK
 
Catholic Cardinal rejects sex abuse 'gossip'

Pope speaks of 'profound crisis'

A senior cardinal has said the Roman Catholic faithful will not be swayed by "petty gossip" about child sex-abuse allegations.

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, made the remark in an unusual message of support to Pope Benedict XVI during Easter Mass.

The Pope did not did not mention the scandal directly in his Easter address.

He said humanity was suffering from a "profound crisis" and needed "spiritual and moral conversion".

Meanwhile, the Pope's personal preacher has apologised for comparing criticism of the Catholic Church over child abuse to "collective violence suffered by the Jews" in a Good Friday sermon.

   
Easter doesn't work magic
Pope Benedict XVI

Pope's preacher apologises
 
Fr Raniero Cantalamessa told Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper that he had only meant to point to "the use of stereotype and the easy passage from individual to collective guilt".

Allegations of abuse - many dating back decades - have put pressure on the Church recently in many countries, including the Pope's native Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, and the US.

The Church has persisted in playing down the developing scandal provoked by the allegations, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.

'Humanity's crisis'

During Easter Mass in St Peter's Square, Cardinal Sodano expressed solidarity with the Pope, who has himself come under scrutiny for his role in handling past cases of abuse.

"Holy Father, the people of God are with you and will not let themselves be influenced by the petty gossip of the moment, by the trials that sometimes assail the community of believers," the cardinal said.

   
ANALYSIS
David Willey
David Willey, BBC News, Rome

The Pope seems uncertain how to deal with a crisis of confidence unparalleled in modern times.

The Vatican's public relations strategy so far has been to blame the media - particularly the foreign media - for exaggerating the problem.

Many bishops have rallied to support the Pope and his policies for dealing with paedophile priests, although some are openly demanding greater humility and transparency from the Church.

The Vatican has in the past consistently played down the extent of clerical paedophilia.

Its spokesman has been engaged in a major damage control operation. He has to try to convince the world that policies now in place are adequate to tackle the problem and ensure that clerics who commit these crimes are properly tried in the civil courts as well as punished by Church authorities.

His remarks echoed comments made a week earlier by Pope Benedict.

With the Church already under pressure over the abuse allegations, the Pope said his faith would help give him the courage to deflect "petty gossip".

In his Easter "Urbi et Orbi" address, the Pope said the salvation of the Gospel was needed "to emerge from a profound crisis, one which requires deep change, beginning with consciences".

After offering prayers for victims of crime, conflict and natural disasters around the world, he added:

"Easter doesn't work magic... After the resurrection the Church always finds history filled not only with joy and hope but also with grief and anguish."

Pope Benedict has not made any explicit comment on the issue since he penned a letter apologising for child-abuse in the Irish Church late last month.

The pontiff has been accused personally of failing to take action against a suspected abuser during his tenure as archbishop of Munich - a claim the Vatican strongly denies.

Critics also say that when he was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, he did not act against a priest in the US state of Wisconsin who is thought to have abused some 200 deaf boys.

The Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, stepped up its defence of the Pope in its Sunday edition, publishing messages of support from around the world and denouncing the "slanderous attacks and the defamation campaign surrounding the drama of abuse by priests".

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I wish they would just quit tap dancing around this abomination they created with unnatural spiritual prerequisites. I am sick of priests abusing young boys, every catholic I knew growing up knew Father Daniels (our priest growing up) was subjecting young boys to cruel punishment and nobody did anything about it, including your parents.
Danny

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Re: 3 staff hit clients at millbrook

Postby SEKTO » Yesterday, 10:55

formerdaytopemployee:

My source has confirmed that what you reported yesterday is entirely accurate.

Thank you, and please don't stop posting here about DAYTOP.

Also, please try not to let the trolls and assorted characters who, at times, dominate fornits dissuade you from participating in the DAYTOP forum.

I try to keep the DAYTOP forum a "safe place" that is removed from the Jerry Springerish drama and all that.

And judging from the posts on other threads pertaining to DAYTOP, this recent release of information coming out of Millbrook has hit a nerve.

From what I gather, that organization is to this day as corrupt and abusive as it ever was.

Can you tell us anything further about "Troy" and/or "Priscilla"?

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I'm still trying to figure out what Daytop you went to SEKTO, because this sounds more like the Daytop I was used to hearing about. That is why I found it so fuuny when Inculcate said what she said about intake evaluations. There was no serious analysis to the intake of any person that I have ever heard of.
I would not take these physical altercations between staff and resident all that serious unless you have their bio and pic in front of you. They would kick your ass for just looking at them, SEKTO. This is not a place where Mommy and Daddy are paying $56,000.00 a year to place there child, that is coming from my source who is right there in New York.
From what I am hearing Daytop is strongly considering going back to all adult facilities.
Till next time....Sekto I see you have some strong opinionated folks on your forum good for you. About time.
Oh and you think Elan fucking crazy, wait to you meet the real Daytop folks....lol.
Think of bike gangs, street thugs and blazers.....thats my Daytop...NYC and Jersey style.

Danny

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9 Charged in Teen's Suicide

Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant, hanged herself after 'unrelenting' bullying.


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I am very sad that 9 children had to be charged for manslaughter but at some point this has got to stop.

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Deaf Boys Tried For Decades To Tell Of Priest's Sexual Abuse

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/us/27 ... S0iBQ2pXkA

For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and DAVID CALLENDER
Published: March 26, 2010

Andy Manis for The New York Times

They were deaf, but they were not silent. For decades, a group of men who were sexually abused as children by the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy at a school for the deaf in Wisconsin reported to every type of official they could think of that he was a danger, according to the victims and church documents.
 
Steven Geier said the priest who molested him as a boy told him he had to keep it a secret.

Timeline: The Predator Priest Who Got Away
Documents: The Case of the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy
 
Mr. Geier reported the abuse to three priests, including the Rev. Tom Schroeder

They told other priests. They told three archbishops of Milwaukee. They told two police departments and the district attorney. They used sign language, written affidavits and graphic gestures to show what exactly Father Murphy had done to them. But their reports fell on the deaf ears of hearing people.

This week, they learned that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, received letters about Father Murphy in 1996 from Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee, who said that the deaf community needed “a healing response from the Church.” The Vatican sat on the case, then equivocated, and when Father Murphy died in 1998, he died a priest.

“That man should have been in prison for a very long time, but he was lucky,” Steven Geier, one of Father Murphy’s victims, said Thursday. “What about me? I wasn’t supposed to touch girls. What gave him the right to be able to do that? Father Murphy constantly thought about sex with children, and he got away with it.”

Young victims of sexual abuse are often so confused, ashamed or traumatized that they wait years to report the violations. Some never say a word. One of the remarkable aspects of the Father Murphy case is that young victims began alerting the authorities in the mid-1950s, when sexual abuse was hardly even a part of the public vocabulary.

In his ranch house in Madison, where he lives with his wife, Ann, and two dachshunds, Mr. Geier said through an interpreter that he entered St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wis., when he was 9. His father had helped build a Catholic church in rural Dane County, and his aunt was a nun. His family wanted him to get a good education in a Catholic school.

Mr. Geier, now 59, said that between the ages of 14 and 15, starting around 1965, Father Murphy molested him four times in a closet at the school. The priest, a hearing man fluent in sign language, said that God wanted him to teach the boy about sex but that he had to keep it quiet because it was under the sacrament of confession. Mr. Geier said he felt sick.

“First thing in the morning,” Mr. Geier said, “we took communion, and as he passed out the communion wafers, I thought about how many boys did he touch with those hands and all of the germs, all of the filth of his hands.”

Father Murphy may have molested as many as 200 boys while he worked at the school from 1950 to 1974, according to the accounts of victims and a social worker hired by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee to interview him.

Mr. Geier said he first tried to tell the priest at his home parish in Madison, where he served as an altar boy, in 1966 when he was just 16. But the priest, he said, told him he did not want to hear about it, and to just forget about it. He told another priest while he was still a teenager, and yet a third priest years later, after he married.

That priest, the Rev. Tom Schroeder, 72, who led Masses for the deaf in Madison from 1970 to 1992, said in an interview Friday that he remembered Mr. Geier’s telling him about Father Murphy. Father Schroeder said that he told a nun, who told another nun who was a dormitory supervisor at St. John’s, but that the supervisor did not believe it and nothing ever came of it.

“I assumed that if enough people told her, she would finally believe it,” Father Schroeder said.

Internal church correspondence unearthed in a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and given to The New York Times, which made it public it this week, included a letter from the Rev. David Walsh, who served as a chaplain for the deaf in Chicago, saying that teenage students at St. John’s had told him in the late 1950s about Father Murphy’s abuse.

Father Walsh said he told Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer of Milwaukee, who sent Father Murphy on a retreat and then put him back in the school to undo “the harm he had done.”

In the 1970s, a group of former students who were in a vocational rehabilitation program in Milwaukee began telling their hearing supervisors about Father Murphy, a sequence of events reported in two articles in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2006.
 
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Among the supervisors was John Conway, now the deputy administrator of workers’ compensation for the State of Wisconsin. Mr. Conway, the students and others collected affidavits from 15 to 20 former students about Father Murphy’s violations. They were granted a meeting with Archbishop William E. Cousins.
 
“In my extreme naïveté,” said Mr. Conway in an interview on Friday, “I told them the archbishop would take care of this.”

He said they were surprised to find the room packed with people, including several nuns and teachers from the school, two priests who said they were representing the apostolic delegate in Chicago, and Father Murphy himself.

Arthur Budzinski and Gary Smith, two more victims of Father Murphy, said in an interview last week that they remember seeing Archbishop Cousins yell, and Father Murphy staring at the floor. The deaf men and their advocates were told that Father Murphy, the school’s director and top fund-raiser, was too valuable to be let go, so he would be given only administrative duties.

They were outraged. They distributed “Wanted” posters with Father Murphy’s face outside the cathedral in Milwaukee. They went to the police departments in Milwaukee, where they were told it was not the correct jurisdiction, and in St. Francis, where the school was located, Mr. Conway said. They also went to the office of E. Michael McCann, the district attorney of Milwaukee County, and spoke with his assistant, William Gardner.

“A criminal priest was an oxymoron to them,” Mr. Conway said. “They said they’ll refer it to the archdiocese.”

Calls to Mr. McCann and Mr. Gardner this week were not returned.

Mr. Conway said it was only when they filed a lawsuit that the archdiocese removed Father Murphy from St. John’s and sent him to northern Wisconsin to live at his family’s summer house. The lawsuit was withdrawn. Mr. Smith, one of two of the plaintiffs whose cases were still within the statute of limitations, received a settlement of $2,000, he and Mr. Conway said.

Father Murphy continued working in parishes and schools, with deaf people, and leading youth retreats in the Diocese of Superior for the next 24 years.
 
Laurie Goodstein reported from New York, and David Callender from Madison, Wis.
A version of this article appeared in print on March 27, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition.
 
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Grew up being scared of priests because of the stories.....
Danny

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No but I'm sure it did with your wife, she was there with me.
Danny