#clergy-abuse

#clergy-abuse

Attorneys Frank Lamothe III and Kristi Schubert have 75 clients. Twenty-three of them are prisoners, and most of them allege abuse at two long-shuttered orphanages, Hope Haven and Madonna Manor. Two of these men had a different path to prison. Bernard Joseph, 57, and Marcus Hamilton, 65, half-brothers, are serving life terms in Angola, the Louisiana state penitentiary, for murdering a priest.

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The trial heard the women sometimes referred to as the Lycra Lovelies or the Lycra Nuns were on a rota to help then-Reverend Brain with his every need. Some gave him sensual massages which he told the jury were to relieve tension headaches. He was charged with one count of rape and 36 counts of indecent assault relating to 13 women between 1981 and 1995. On Wednesday, jurors at Inner London Crown Court found him guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault against nine women.

Survivors groups are dismayed by the election of Pope Leo XIV, citing serious concerns over his past handling of clerical sexual abuse cases, which they find insulting.