‘Heinous things’

Dear Editor:

RE: ‘Imagining the worst,’ April 21.

Let’s all play pretend for just a minute. Is it a “rule of the church” to leave a cross at a small grave marked for the children who died at the residential schools?

Is another “rule of the church” to molest, rape, physically and mentally abuse children, and rip them away from their rightful parents?

We were not around to know what happened exactly 100 years ago. This is true. However this disgusting situation continued to happen well into the 1980s.

Thankfully there are people that did survive the abuse and lived to tell about it; people as young as 50 years old. They all have the same story of what went on at the residential schools. We have to acknowledge that heinous things have occurred, we don’t want to live with the wool pulled over our eyes.

As we all know just recently the Pope has just publicly apologized to all the Indigenous people for what happened long ago (and not that long ago at all), at the residential schools.

Also we can not fail to recognize the fact that yes, some of the children probably did die from the flu, but perhaps if these children weren’t malnourished and abused they’d have had a better chance fighting it off.

Samantha McDougall, Fergus