Group Photo Christian Brothers and lay faculty

St. Bon's circa 1952

In this crowd you can see J.E. (Boils) Murphy real name John Evangelist Murphy

Top row upper left corner.

Now living in Dolgeville, a small community in upstate New York, outside of Albany

New York's state capital.

He did teach at Cardinal Farley in upstate New York for many years.

Murphy is married and the father of nine.

Murphy is still being processed for numerous charges of sexual misconduct

with young boys while teaching at Mount Cashel Orphanage during the 1950's.

Ronald Justin (Rubberneck) Lasik top row second from the right corner. Lasik has been

convicted of numerous counts of buggery, sexual touching, physical assault the works,

served three years and a bit now released into the care of his sister, living supposedly in

Illinois.

(Update) Recently sent off to Ulster, New York, a retirement centre for Irish Christian Brothers

Alleged to be a possible strain to his sister's health . Rated level 3 sex offender in the New York sex offender registry.

At least one of his victims was found dead after 40 years of pain and suffering.

If you have concerns check it out...mug shot and bio available.

Luke Gilchrist is in the second row down from the top second in from the left.

Kernan is the next one to the left of Gilchrist. Kernan though charged was never convicted.

He remains a Christian brother and was last known to be living in New York city.

The complainant against Kernan has since died. His story was truly horrific.

Gerard (Stumps) Barry also second row from top but third one in from right side. Stumps,

another American, from Massachusetts I think, but then living in Ontario

was also convicted of sexual misconduct with a young boy and served two years plus a bit.

Last known to have returned to Burlington, Ontario.

Next to Stumps right is Thomas Cuthbert Ford at least that is what I think. Ford lives in

New Jersey plea bargained himself down to one month in jail in Newfoundland after

admitting physical assault of monstrous proportions upon one kid, the kid now man

was damaged for life but the crown could only hammer out one month's punishment.

Ford returned to New Jersey

(see attached article for more on this convicted sadist)

   Rogues Gallery

The following Christian and former

Christian Brothers were charged, dragged

 and/or extradited  kicking, screaming,

wailing and crying but now convicted

Pedophiles from the 1950's convicted in the 1990's and their case histories

John Evangelist Murphy

now living in Dolgeville, New York

as he is today before the

mistrial June 2003

 

 

 

Articles after the mistrial

 

 

 

Murphy v. United States
December 8, 1999
December 20, 1999
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
N/A
International Criminal Law
Navreet K. Basati - Executive Articles Editor
In Murphy v. United States, the Court held that although prosecution would be time-barred in the United States under the statute of limitations, this does not preclude the extradition of the defendant to Canada to be prosecuted there in accordance with the Treaty on Extradition between Canada and the United States.

Background

Petitioner John Evangelist (Thomas) Murphy was a resident of New York, and had allegedly physically and sexually abused minors at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland, in Canada between 1951 and 1960. As a result of these allegations, he was charged under Canadian law, where there is no statute of limitations applicable to the offenses he was charged with. In November 1996, Canadian authorities requested his extradition pursuant to the Treaty on Extradition between the United States and Canada. On May 11, 1998, Murphy was arrested on an extradition warrant. On June 30, 1998, the United States Magistrate Judge J. DiBianco entered an Order finding that the petitioner was subject to extradition under the terms of the Treaty. On July 6, 1998, Murphy filed a document that was treated as a habeus corpus petition challenging the Judge's Order. On December 2, 1998, Judge Munson rejected petitioner's arguments and denied the peition for habeus corpus accordingly.

Discussion

The Court uses a narrow scope of review to test only the legality of the extradition proceedings, and lets the executive branch decide whether extradition is wise or not. The Petitioner agrees that there is no statute of limitations for the crimes in Canada, but extradition under these circumstances would violate either due process or the doctrine of "dual criminality." This doctrine, also contained in Article 2 of the Treaty, says that an accused can be extradited "only if the alleged criminal conduct is considered criminal under the laws of both the surrendering and requesting nations." The Court finds that the statute of limitations of the requesting state can only be raised as a defense to criminal proceedings once the accused is returned to the requesting state. Since there is no statute of limitations in Canada barring Petitioner's prosecution there, he was extraditable under the terms of the Treaty.

Furthermore, the Court says that the Petitioner will be prosecuted under the laws of the requesting state, unless another mode is provided by the Treaty. The Court affirmed the judgement of the District Court, and denied Petitioner's arguments in favor of habeous corpus. Since the Court found that the laws of the requesting state are the ones that will apply, it logically follows that the accused cannot raise any defenses provided under the laws of the United States.

Judge Adams orders mistrial

because victim misspoke of being

physically assaulted instead of only being

sexually assaulted....what a farce.

( New judge assigned )

Seamus O' Regan

(picture to follow)

 

 

JUSTICE NEWFOUNDLAND STYLE

OR

'A SHIP OF FOOLS'

After the flummery of Judge Adams having called a mistrial the first time that former Christian Brother John Evangelist Murphy had been finally being dragged screaming and crying to trial, the new judge Seamus O'Regan  managed to get a jury together, evidence presented and a conviction.  Now the jury turned the matter over to Judge O' Regan for sentencing, at that point the wheels once again fell off, O' Regan didn't check with the people at Corrections Canada to see what their powers were.  Corrections Canada didn't bother to see if they had the power to enforce a sentence of house arrest upon an American pervert sentenced to house arrest back in the United States for crimes committed in a foreign country.

    So Murphy was allowed to walk from the court house without having spent one night in jail, board a plane and fly back to New York without his community being any the wiser.  And then there entered one man who contacted the District Attorney serving Dolgeville, New York; contacted the press such as the local press in Newfoundland and exposed this callous indifference demonstrated by the Newfoundland government officials, Corrections Canada.  In time the story was picked up by the Dallas Morning News, kits were sent out to all of Murphy's community detailing his crimes.  Those neighbors in turn started to monitor Murphy's free wheeling ways and lack of respect for the promises he had made in a Newfoundland Court.

Follow up

Judge Seamus O' Regan sentenced Murphy to 20 months house arrest and as in the newspaper article shown above John Evangelist Murphy was sent back to Dolgeville, New York were he wandered freely within his community without those good people knowing of his conviction for sexual molestation of little orphan boys.  However, I, Patrick Williams, creator of this website, let those people know of Murphy's conviction and and his archdiocese.  As a result he was ordered not to participate in his local parish activities and was finally exposed to his neighbors.  Murphy now stays at home and is registered as a convicted sex offender in the state of New York.

Proof that one little guy with the will can do what big government won't.

(I was one of those little kids and though I'm an old man now I still see these devils through the eyes of a little boy)   ..I'm not paid for this  work I  do ..I'm not one of the lawyers who plundered and continues to plunder eighty per cent of the monies paid out and then come back and ask these men to pay more from the final pittance they did receive.

It is alleged that all told from the Newfoundland Government, the selling off of the Canadian Christian Brothers of Ireland assets and the schools in Newfoundland ...those monies came to $80,000,000. dollars...so the lawyers and their ilk are alleged to have taken $64,000,000. dollars divided up amongst one hundred of themselves allowing $20,000,000. to be divided up between hundreds of the actual victims and then billing those same victims for as much as thirty per cent contingency fees (plus cost of disbursements, travel, postage stamps, dinners, air fares, photo copying GST and the list goes on...several went on from there to throw their hats into the political ring, build their take from the orphans into million dollar holdings. 

The one thing most of them have in common is this  if there isn't any money new or old on the table "don't bother calling" you are history.  As one writes on his website how he is overcome with emotion as he drives by the grounds of the former orphanage.  Yeah the civil suits have almost run out for Mount Cashel, the money tree will no longer be there for the shaking...but hey there's always the native peoples claims or the potential to run for government...none of these guys are the wonderful people like Judge Sam Hughes, Maureen Dunn, Judge Wells, Judge Leo Barry or those most noble of them all  former crown prosecutor John Brooks and my personal hero Sgt. Mark Wall 

 

  Gerard Kevin Barry

Another American ex Christian Brother

charged and convicted served two years

plus..  admitted nothing ...  apologized  to no one

no remorse. Never listed as a convicted child  molestor

 now living in  Burlington, Ontario.

 

Ronald Justin Lasik

(KING OF THE PERVERTS)

from Chicago, Illinois, USA

charged and convicted sentenced to

 10 plus years...served three and a bit

Released under cover of darkness by Corrections Canada

with none of his victims notified of his release as

they had been promised. Lasik sick, so  he's released

into his sister's care...  miracle of miracles

soon able to leave his sister's care and 

move to Ulster, New York where he whiles

his days away sitting on a bench enjoying life.

Oh "what were his charges" you might ask, buggery, oral sex,

masturbating children and extreme brutality and cruelty to kids.

Judge Maureen Dunn had sentenced Lasik as the law was intended

but again we continue with "what only  appears to be enforcement of the law equally

and Newfoundland's quaint self imposed caste system of special privilege for the Roman Catholic Church, Government Officials & it's inner circle.

 

Judge Maureen Dunn's sentencing report

 

Frank Clancey

A Mount Cashel boy himself

who acting as an electrician

for the orphanage preyed upon

the little boys for years.

charged and convicted ....no

time served now in a nursing home...

seen hanging around playgrounds while

on probation....no action taken.

 

Sex Offender Restrictions
August 23, 2000

Seventy-three year old Frances Clancey now lives at the St. Pat`s Mercy Home in St.  John`s, two years ago the former Mt. Cashel Orphanage handy man pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault that dated back to the early 1950`s at the orphanage. Two men told the court that Mr. Clancey enticed them with soft drinks and candy to become involved in sexual activity with him. After serving his sentence Mr. Clancey moved into the home... and now due to concerns from staff, a tighter restriction has been placed on him. According to documents filed at provincial court in St. John`s... an application was filed by his probation officer after staff at St. Pat`s Mercy Home became concerned after noticing Mr. Clancey watching playgrounds in the area of the home. Now a restriction has been placed on the man that prevents him from being within one hundred meters of any playground, community center or other public place frequented by children under the age of sixteen. The reason for the increased restriction... according to the documents... Mr. Clancey is considered a high risk sex offender and the home where he lives is in close proximity to schools and playgrounds. The restriction is effective immediately.

Brother Thomas Cuthbert Ford

Photo and Bio to follow

Brother Thomas Cuthbert Ford

(photo soon to be posted)

 

For the past three and a half years Christian Bother Thomas Cuthbert Ford has been fighting extradition to this country, but recently he made a deal to come back to Newfoundland to face nine charges of assault... and today he appeared in provincial court in St. John`s. The charges allege that the brother, who worked at the Mt. Cashel Orphanage between 1956 and 1959, beat and kicked a number of residents during his years teaching there. However, Brother Ford entered a guilty plea on a single charge of assault causing bodily harm and with that, the crown withdrew the other eight charges. The court was told by crown attorney John Brooks that the beating by Brother Ford on the fifteen year old resident of the orphanage was merciless and brutal. The prosecutor told the court that a witness even said the boy, who was beating beaten while naked in a shower at the orphanage pleaded for mercy but to no avail, that the beating continued. Mr. Brooks asked the court to sentence brother ford to six months in jail. However, defense lawyer David Eaton asked for an absolute discharge for Brother Ford, saying since Brother Ford is a resident of New Jersey, it would be impossible to monitor any type of conditional sentence. Brother Ford addressed the court himself... he apologized to his victim, who was in the court fighting back tears, the brother also told the court that he was young at the time, 22, and was stupid... that he was disciplining the young man and didn`t deliberately intend to cause him a lifetime of grief. The victim indicated to the court through an impact statement that he suffers severe headaches and back problems and blames the beating by Brother Ford for those ailments. He also says he is haunted by his experience to this day. Brother Ford was placed in custody and escorted from the courtroom... he hid the handcuffs from the camera as he was lead away. Brother ford will be sentenced on Friday.

 

Bergen Record, August 20, 1999

Brutality charge in Canada haunts ex-Oradell teacher
By David Voreacos, Staff Writer

To his supporters, Brother Thomas Cuthbert Ford is a former math teacher at Bergen Catholic High School who lives quietly in a Hackensack apartment and performs modest charity work for his religious order.

But to Canadian authorities, Ford is a brutal man who beat five boys at a Newfoundland orphanage between 1956 and 1959. They want him brought back to stand trial on criminal charges.

Newfoundland Detective Mark Wall said Ford stands out in the memories of former residents at the Mount Cashel Orphanage, particularly for the way he allegedly beat a youngster named Edgar Hartery with a belt in a shower room.

"What he did to that young fellow was brutal. There's no doubt about it," Wall said. "It's certainly child abuse. Everybody remembered what Ford did. This is not corporal punishment. This is cruel. I just want Ford to stand up in court and let the courts decide what happened."

Ford's appointment with Canadian justice is far from certain, however.

The 64-year-old Ford is engaged in a legal battle to prevent Canada from bringing him to trial in a case that centers on the reliability of decades-old memories, the blurry line between corporal punishment and brutality, and the sharp differences between American and Canadian criminal law.

Unearthing long-buried stories of abuse, the charges against Ford echo other allegations of brutality at an orphanage whose dark history has seared its way into the Canadian consciousness in the past decade.

The stakes are undeniably high for Ford, a member of the Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic religious order. About a dozen current or former members have been convicted of physical and sexual abuse at the orphanage. If found guilty, Ford could spend at least 12 years in a Canadian prison.

But under a treaty between Canada and the United States, a suspect cannot be extradited unless charged with a crime punishable by more than a year in prison in both countries.

Ford's attorneys say his alleged crimes amount only to simple assault in the United States and would draw no more than six months in jail. They also note that the statute of limitations on such a charge runs out after five years here, although there is no time limit for indictable offenses in Canada.

"I simply can't understand Canadian authorities coming after this guy after all these years on a case that is, at worst, a simple assault in New Jersey," said Ford's attorney, Edward FitzPatrick. "If we didn't have a statute of limitations, would authorities here dredge up 40-year-old assault cases? There's been no consideration given to a guy with an absolutely crystal-clear record."

FitzPatrick said Ford's actions were not criminal but forms of corporal punishment, a common practice at Catholic institutions in the Fifties.

At a recent hearing in Newark, U.S. Magistrate Stanley Chesler said he had strong doubts about whether Ford would ever stand trial in Canada because of the disparity in sentencing for the alleged offenses.

"I have grave doubts whether or not the offenses are analogous," Chesler said. "My concern is simply whether or not there has been an adequate demonstration that the charges Brother Ford has been charged with are, in fact, subject to extradition."

Chesler put off a decision to weigh further written arguments in the case.

Ford, an American and Irish citizen who has been working part time at the Christian Brothers headquarters in New Rochelle, N.Y., declined to be interviewed. Officials at Bergen Catholic, in Oradell, referred a reporter to Christian Brothers, which did not return several phone calls seeking comment.

Ford joined the religious order at age 15 and taught grammar school in Newfoundland before going to Mount Cashel, court papers show. After leaving Newfoundland, he taught in American schools for three decades.

His alleged victims remember him as a cruel man whose brutality stood out at Mount Cashel, according to statements taken by Wall, who has investigated Mount Cashel cases for a decade.

One alleged victim, Ronald Piccard, described Ford as "a coldblooded animal" who blackened his eyes, bruised his face, "and seemed to enjoy it."

Hartery gave Wall a series of statements about his alleged beating in the shower, which a large group of boys reportedly witnessed.

"Ford just nailed me with the thick black belt," Hartery told Wall in 1992. "He hit me everywhere. Across the back, the arms, the legs, the whole body. When he stopped, he just walked away. The other boys in the shower room were petrified."

Legal papers filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Russel N. Jacobson said "history is careful to distinguish between the corporal punishments that were administered routinely at the Mount Cashel Orphanage and the severe beating that he [Hartery] received from defendant Ford."

But an investigator hired by Ford's attorneys interviewed Hartery last year and reported several discrepancies with earlier statements he had given.

For instance, Hartery said he did not seek medical attention after the alleged assault, he did not bleed, and he went to dinner, court papers show. He also said Hartery was a 14-year-old student in the fourth grade who chased a student with a knife. FitzPatrick, the attorney, said Wall never posed key questions.

"If you were hurt that bad, what happened to you?" FitzPatrick said. "Did you go to the infirmary, go to the sick house? No, [he] went to dinner. It's utter nonsense. It's an extremely weak case."

FitzPatrick said Wall "is beyond the pale as a law enforcement guy. He must have very little to do. He's consumed with these guys."

In Wall's view, it is disappointing that Ford may not return to Canada. "It seems to me that he's hiding behind something," Wall said.

The Mount Cashel cases have gotten wide national exposure in Canada. Police began an investigation of alleged abuse in 1975, but dropped the effort after two priests admitted abuse and left Newfoundland.

Investigators reopened the case in 1989 and eventually arrested nine brothers who later were convicted of abuse. The Roman Catholic Church closed the orphanage in St. John's in 1990, and it was torn down two years later.

A 1992 docudrama on the orphanage, "The Boys of St. Vincent," brought the case to life for millions of viewers in Canada.

The abuse also has had far-ranging legal and financial ramifications. Ninety alleged victims sued the Christian Brothers and the government of Newfoundland, which had financed Mount Cashel. Nearly half of them were awarded $11 million by the government, which sued the religious order.

They also are seeking $36 million in damages while trying to force the Christian Brothers to close two Catholic high schools in Vancouver and sell their assets.

Prosecutors have had mixed success in the cases of the seven men with whom Ford was indicted, four of whom are Americans. Two have been acquitted, and one is fighting extradition in New York State. One who was convicted of buggery and gross indecency received an 11-year sentence last week.

ALSO

Christian Brother Pleads Guilty
August 24, 2000

 A new generation of degenerates

Doug Kenney with his lawyer

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Former Brother Joseph Burke

now Mr. Joe Burke of Vancouver, B.C. 

Alleged to be teaching at Vancouver College in B.C. Canada

 

 

            Burke appealed his conviction and here is that appeal if you wish to read it.

R. v. Burke

 

 email   J Burke

 

 

Brother Ralph   in 1981 year book

at Brother Edmund Rice School in Toronto

after he was spirited out of Newfoundland with the

blessings of provincial government

At the time that Ralph and his cohorts were smuggled out of Newfoundland he's alleged to have had an admission of some guilt. Furthermore, according to the documents shown from Judge Maureen Dunn's sentencing report on Ronald Justin Lasik,  Ralph is shown as having pled guilty when finally brought back to Newfoundland.  In later articles such as the Shirley Soloman show former Irish Christian Brother Short is listed as having been the only one to have pled guilty.  Whether this is a reporting mistake I  don't know, what  I do  know is that both were men were convicted.

"Alan, Alan where are you today"

 

 

Brother Edward English

Photo and Bio to follow

Brother Burton

Photo and Bio to follow

Brother Thorne

Photo and Bio to follow

email ....

Brother Short

Photo and Bio to follow

Brother Rooney

 

Photo and Bio to follow

 

Brother French

Photo and Bio to follow

Father Jim Hickey 

Jim Hickey was convicted and supposedly died in jail

 

 

No matter who it is.... from the pope on down this is what is accepted;  always has been and sadly always will be.....this is the very essence of this cult....a haven for pedophiles the world over....not the words of The Christ but the deeds of an organization rooted in the ways of the enemy of God....Satan. 

Father Ron Kelly

Father Corrigan

            Corrigan and Hickey, it is alleged, were supposed to have owned homes of their own where they entertained young teen age boys plying them with alcohol and marijuana and sex films then acting out sexually with these same kids.  So much for their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.  They were said to have quarreled and gotten into a snit over who would get the attention of a favored youngster.

            Hickey is now long dead.  Corrigan is retired after having been convicted.  He is or was supposed to have had two sisters who were nuns.  No one knew anything supposedly.  The nuns who  attended the churches were these perverts said mass, saw nothing, heard nothing and said nothing.  However when the Archbishop would come into the Basilica in St. John's and make to speak to either Hickey or Corrigan they would skedaddle out the back door, so to speak.

 

            This the nuns knew about, as at least one did who saw Father Kelly actually take little boys out of her classroom without the parents knowledge.  She neither notified the parents or Kelly's superior but says she "suspected something".

Photo and Bio to follow

Bishop Bromley

            Convicted of molesting boys in a local reformatory.  Kids powerless to object because they were already at Whitbourne for being juvenile delinquents or incorrigible.  Years later there was an investigation as to charges of brutality by the staff working there and one child was so in fear of this institution run by the Newfoundland government that he ran away in mid winter and froze to death rather than return and be further abused.

 

            Bromley was the priest who offered aid and comfort to the boys of Whitbourne.  Bromley is also now dead having died in an automobile accident.

Photo and Bio to follow 

 

Father Bennett

                    And  the beat goes on this priest was charged and convicted of sexually abusing some thirty plus boys in one of the communities he served as a priest in Newfoundland.  Bennett admitted his guilt did some time in jail but it has now been some fifteen years since the commencement of a civil suit against the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland and only now has an arrangement been made to compensate these young men..

                    The tricks and turns played by the Roman Catholic church, the archdiocese of St. John's,  St. George's and St. Bernard's were positively Machivellian and now these similar suits against the archdiocese of St. John's, the Sisters of Mercy in St. John's, Newfoundland for reparation to the girls of Belvedare orphanage and the civil suits of the men from Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland and the same archdiocese  of St. John's, Newfoundland and the Irish Christian Brothers aka The Christian Brothers of Ireland, Canada and The Christian Brothers Institute, Inc of New York are slowly wending their way through the courts without any of these three defendants having ever accepted one iota of responsibility whatsoever.  If there should ever be a decision given where the archdiocese of St. John's is ordered to pay reparation to individuals there will be a run on the Roman Catholic coffers as never seen before by the likes of man.

Kenney at the height of his powers

with former brother Kevin Molloy now Father Molloy

 

 

Kenney after he  swanned off to Toronto

He and Ralph at Brother Edmund Rice Toronto

kids comments "he was weird" or "he used to hang outside the bathrooms"

 

"Oh Doug where are you today"? 

(answer- last known to be living with his mom at her home

down the road from where the orphanage

once stood)

David Jerome Burton

Picture and bio to follow

 

 

Christian Brother Goes On Trial
June 27, 2000

Sixty year old David Jerome Burton was in Supreme Court today... the Christian Brother was set to go on trial with a judge and jury, but re-elected trial by judge alone. The former Mt. Cashel worker was going on trial facing three charges including two counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency. The court heard the incidents are alleged to have occurred against two male residents of the Mt. Cashel orphanage between 1965 and 1982. It`s the third time Brother Burton has come before the courts facing charges. In 1982 he was sentenced to four months in jail, but only served 12 days. Then in 1993 was sentenced to a year in jail. However, before the main part of the trial could begin today, Mr. burton`s lawyer, Scott Fenton from Ontario, applied to have two of the counts alleged by one individual stayed by the court. The basis for the stay application is that Brother Burton admitted his abuse of boys in 1993 and was under the impression that he had a verbal agreement with the Crown at that time, that they would not charge him in connection with incidents that weren`t before the court then. Brother Burton took the stand and told the court today `I understood there was a verbal agreement with the Crown that these issues couldn`t come up again.` He said he admitted to abuse in 1993 saying `My idea was not to put my family, the Brothers and the boys at Mt. Cashel through all of this again.` Brother Burton said he pleaded guilty to get all of this over with back then. The brother broke into tears during his testimony saying he was sorry. However he did admit that he didn`t tell all of what happened back in 1993. A decision on the stay isn`t expected this week, however, the trial will continue in the meantime.

Former Mt. Cashel Chrisian Brother David Jerome Burton was found not guilty of one count of indecent assault after a judge told the Supreme Court trial, that he couldn`t be sure if the victim of the abuse was correct in identifying Brother Burton as the one who committed the offence. Also, two other charges, one each of gross indecency and indecent assault, were stayed. Even though Brother Burton admitted to the offences in 1993, he was not convicted of them when the police didn`t have a complaint from the victim. Brother Burton confessed without being questioned, saying he wanted to clean the slate and put the assaults behind him and pay for his misdeeds. The Brother was sentenced to a year in prison on one count. The Brother told the court that he had an agreement with the Crown and police, that what he was pleading guilty to in 1993 would take care of all his admissions and he wouldn`t be charged in the future. The judge found that no-one expected the complainant to come forward two years ago and demand charges. The judge entered stays on the two charges. The complainant, who had been in the court, broke into tears after the decision.

Christian Brothers and former Christian Brothers charged but not convicted.

 

            Here we have Brother Joseph Kernan,  'Joey', as he likes to be called was the Irish Christian Brother who taught grades three and four back in the fifties at Mount Cashel Orphanage.  Kernan was always laughing and it was a big  hearthy laugh as I remember, he taught the kids dancing as in the Mexican hat dance, the teddy bears picnic and highland dancing, tap and sword dancing.  The kids did shows and were in colorful costumes.  He seemed to be well liked but there were complaints made of sexual abuse but only one charge made it into court and he was found not guilty.

 

 

                This is former Irish Christian Brother Lawlor;  he too was charged but not convicted.  My understanding is that he is the son of former police chief  John  Lawlor.  The self same police chief alleged to have aided and abetted   in the cover up of the sexual and physical abuse carried on in the 1970's..

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Photos of orphanage activities