Editor:
Re: All the stories given to reporter by First Nation people in Burns Lake were lies says lawyer
The story about Burns Lake B.C. First Nation people lying in court in regards to John Furlong case which is very disturbing to me. I am still trying to survive this nightmare and I myself lived this painful abuse in the 60s and 70s during my school days in that so called Catholic school. Not only was I abused but also sexually molested by a nun, and two of my best cousins, my best friends, committed suicide because of this ugly abuse. We always talked among one another that life goes on and that we will support one another and that we will always get together when it gets pretty heavy. I went out of town when my cousin committed suicide and my other cousin came to see me that night when his life was to end. I kept telling him to stay strong because if we go that way we will only make the abusers happy but to make the story short he did not make it.
By then I was so scared because that nun that did this to me threatened me with words got to the best of us. I would like to sit down and tell the story to the Lake Babine Nation (LBN) staff and teachers of LBN.
I was very much abused at Immaculata school and I was strapped by a big thick belt on the palm and the top of our hands and got punched on the back of the head. I was made to eat dog biscuits and spoiled goats milk, so that lawyer should not say Burns Lake Immaculata school survivors are liars.
Try and stand in my painful shoes for a few minutes and see how you'll feel. If you were not there to see what really happened and don't know what happened then maybe that lawyer should shut his mouth.
And why is the court in Vancouver when this abuse took place in Burns Lake B.C. knowing our natives can't afford to go to Vancouver.
I can't and do not ever want to go to that Catholic church ever again and worse where the church is sitting is where our abuse took place, now I am 61 years old and still hurting bad. The hurt in my life is what gets me drinking, when I get drunk I don't feel the pain. There is more to this story this is just the beginning of this painful story.
A long time survivor
Paul Joseph