Background and History of the Orphanage:
Neerkol Orphanage:
Organisation St Joseph's Home, Neerkol (1880 - 1985)
From 1880 To 1985
Categories:Care Provider, Catholic and Children's Home
Alternative Names:
* Meteor Park Orphanag
* Neerkol Orphanage
Summary:
St Joseph's Home was originally established at Bucasia, Mackay in 1874 by Father Bucas.The Sisters of St Joseph ran the orphanage from 1876 to 1879. They were replaced by the Sisters of Mercy who ran the orphanage from 1880 to 1885. Due to health problems the Queensland Government closed the orphanage and a new orphanage known as the Meteor Park Orphanage was built in 1885 at Neerkol, 11 kms from Rockhampton. "Meteor Park" was a station property acquired by the Bishop of Rockhampton, Dr Cani, in the early 1880s. The orphanage was run by the Sisters of Mercy.
Child and youth migration :
The British Child migration scheme to the British Empire lasted 350 years with the final group of children departing for Australia in 1967. After World War Two children were sent to Australia from the United Kingdom as a way of increasing Australia's population and as a means of rescuing poor and abandoned children from British institutions. They were unaccompanied by families and had no such ties in Australia. Although it was claimed these children were orphans, most were not, but had been placed in state care when parents were temporarily unable to care for them because of marriage breakdown, illegitimacy and temporary economic hardship.
Queensland's intake was small, only 4.5 per cent of the total numbers who came to Australia. In the 1950s the Salvation Army Training Home for Boys at Riverview, near Ipswich admitted 77 boys. Between the years of 1951 and 1956, 48 children were admitted to the St Joseph's Orphanage at Neerkol, near Rockhampton.
The British, Commonwealth and State Governments contributed financially to the scheme. By 1967 all child migrants to Neerkol were discharged from state care.
Source: findandconnect.gov.au
Neerkol - Hell On Earth
From: Bruce Grundy's Inside Queensland, March 1998
The Order of the Sisters of Mercy owes its existence to an Irish Catholic nun, Sr. Catherine McAuley, who was born in County Dublin in 1778. Both parents died when she was young. She lived for many years with other families and eventually was the beneficiary of the estate of one of them.
"Meteor Park" was a station property at Neerkol outside Rockhampton, Queensland, acquired by the Bishop of Rockhampton, Dr Cani, in the early 1880s. It was to become an orphanage run by the Sisters of Mercy.
The first group of children is said to have moved there from the state orphanage in May 1885.
Over the years "Meteor Park" or "Neerkol" was "home" to more than 4000 children.
It closed as an orphange in 1978. -
See Source - justiceproject.net
Neerkol
"THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ORPHANAGE":
Here then was a place where those in control were in total control. These were people who had real power. Absolute power. Power bulwarked by the mighty authority of the Roman Catholic Church and supported by the mighty authority of the State exercised through a variety of public servants who were supposed to oversee the operation of the orphanage.
Here was a place with no near neighbours. Here was place that few cared about. Here was a place awash with respectability -- the Sisters of Mercy and Saint Joseph caring for and nurturing the victims of all kinds of family tragedies. Above all, here was a place of fear -- palpable, terrifying, constant, fear.
Here was a place, then, where you could do as you liked. And they did..
See Source - justiceproject.net
APOLOGY:
At 11am on Monday 16 November 2009, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a National Apology to the Forgotten Australians and former Child Migrants – here's a transcript. Malcolm Turnbull, then Leader of the Opposition, made his own apology.
BACKGROUND TO THE APOLOGY:
The apology was announced by Jenny Macklin, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, on 27 October 2009. In making the announcement the Minister said:
"The apology will acknowledge that what happened in the past was both real and wrong. It will make sure that a largely invisible part of our history is put firmly on the record. And it will remind the community of what happened to many of these children – the loss of family, the loss of identity and, in the case of child migrants, the loss of their country." Source - forgottenaustralianhistory.gov.au
CASES:
150,000 Children Abused, Tortured & Stolen by the Catholic Church in Australia- 150,000 children were stolen from their families in Great Britain, falsely called "Orphans", then taken to Australia where the children were placed in religious orphanages. There they were forced to endure atrocious living conditions, starvation, torture and abuse at the hands of priests and nuns. The Catholic Church generated profits from each child in "care". They enslaved many of the children to further profit, while others were forced to satisfy the sexual desires of the priests or nuns.
In 2009, the Australian government had the audacity to issue an "apology" for the abuse endured by the children, yet failed to encarcerate or even name any of the criminal priests and nuns who implemented and covered up this systematic abuse. Sorry is not enough!- Source - vaticancrimesinaustralia
Orphans 'tortured' by nuns for 90 years-
"Children at the Neerkol orphanage in northern Queensland were scalded with boiling water, locked under the floor and had their toenails pulled out with pliers, a report by a university lecturer says. Beatings, public floggings and rape were also practiced, the report alleges." Source - vaticancrimesinaustralia
Neerkol kids were guinea-pigs: MP-
THEY were starved, raped, beaten and humiliated; now there is a shocking claim that for decades, children at Neerkol, an orphanage near Rockhampton run by the Catholic Church, were experimented on.
Source- News Bulletin
"Testimonial and Statement of Survivors and Victims";
Playing A Stain on the Brain - the David Owen Story-
The lost teenager finds his way out of the Bush as a farmhand, street boxer, Rugby League hooker, model prisoner, Aboriginal crew boss, beloved son and brother as he steps into his last role of dockyard union leader defending the rights of the underdog. When the plant shuts down making Owen redundant and untrainable, he seeks the help of HEAS psychologist Dr. Roger Peters, finally exposing what happened at Neerkol. He makes a painful deathbed promise to his emotionally-shattered mum Katie, to make right the evil wrongs he encountered as a ward of the State, in the care of the Sisters of Mercy and the Government of Queensland. - Pls watch the youtube video on this site.. - poundpuplegacy.org
We were charged with being neglected-
" My name is Colleen and I grew up in Neerkol orphanage in Rockhampton. I went to the orphanage when I was 11 years of age. We were taken off our parents and charged with being neglected. We were taken to court. The five of us were in court. My grandfather went there to try to stop them from taking us, but they wouldn’t give us to him. He went away and he was so upset. He was so sad. He was an old man but he wanted us so badly." source - nma.gov.au
VICTIMS OF NEERKOL ORPHANAGE -
"I Shane Gregor went to Neerkol Orphanage when I was 7 years of age. I was admitted in December 1961 and was discharged in August 1963. I was sexually abused by two priests while I was there." Source - tor.id.au/article.
Ms, Samilya Muller - This is my story I have written to many churches and the bishop, and have always got answers that we are sorry for what happen to you, but they don't know the after effects, it still has on us, I am ex residence of St Joseph's Home Neerkol, Rockhampton I have had so many sucide attempts self harming, and tried once many years ago to take Father Durhamun to court, that failed because of his age, my time spent in that place was very unloved and abuse,
one time strapped to a bed as I moved my arms from having my arms down the side of my legs, as they were suppose to accross my chest,
I as a ward of the state was not given the same treatment as private children, my abuse results in touching me up, and bashing and tied to a beds,
left in soiled clothes and no education and left in dark small spaces, not knowing any different to the world this has still left me with post traumatic distress disorder, and personality disorder, my doctors who have been treating me will give you so much evidence of my condition, Source - or.id.au/article.
Broken Rites supporting sex-abuse victims of Father Reginald Durham at a Queensland orphanage- "The allegations against Durham were investigated by Rockhampton detectives. In February 1997, Father Reginald Basil Durham was charged with counts of rape and 41 of indecent dealing, involving two girls and a boy, between 1960 and 1967. When Durham's first committal hearing began in June 1997, some unpleasant secrets surfaced about sexual and physical abuse at Neerkol. One man, who was aged 59 in 1997, said that children who ran away from the orphanage were captured, stripped naked and flogged in front of the entire assembly.
Realising that the Neerkol secrets would eventually become public at Durham's trial, the church swung into damage control. The Sisters of Mercy (operators of the orphanage) published an apology to those inmates "who suffered spiritual, psychological, sexual and physical abuse at Neerkol." Bishop Heenan retracted his September 1996 denial about the abuse. In a public statement in 1998, he told Neerkol victims: "I regret that I did not acknowledge those sufferings when you first raised them and that my first reaction was one of disbelief." Source - brokenrites.alphalink.com.au
"THE SUPPRESSED GRAVE"
Unmarked graves of Forgotten Australian in Stanwell St Josephs Orphanage-
To all our brothers and sisters and friends we need your support We are in the early stages of negotiating with Stanwell for the beautification of the children that lay in unmarked graves with no name.
Some are trying to settle with just an upgrade to the memorial to include the children's names on this memorial which is hidden on the side of a road nowhere near where the children lay . Source - lukesarmy
Mark Torr,
This is a timely opportunity for the Stanwell, Forwards, the
Government, the Church and the Sisters of Mercy to come together to
forge the only possible moral and appropriate result required by human
dignity and respect for those children of the past and those children
yet to come through giving them back their names and through marking
their final resting places.
I look forward to progressing and finalising this matter with you as
soon as possible - See FB_MarkTorr
The real face of Evil at Neerkol
For more Info Visit: forgottenaustralians
While those sick Pedophiles and child abusers (RCC) and their King (Pope) Enjoying their sick Gimmick celebrating Jubilee campaign for themselves, Waving their hands and acting like holy people in their world youth day (They should celebrate world pedophile day instead for they boasting their immunity for what they did to children and celebrate it and applause by people who knew their crimes) while The Victims and history of the orphanage remains suppressed.. Many of the victims of this orphanage never heard... Memories of this orphanage cries for Justice.. Every time you see this organization enjoying and celebrating loudly and pretends thers nothing happen, remember those victims in the orphanage who had been abused by this organization, remember those children who lies in Unmarked Graves, Remember the forgotten.. AUSTRALIA hear their Silence! - SYF
The victims of Neerkol are entitled to see the story told - in all its detail. In all its horror. In all its unfathomable inhumanity.
Neerkol was a crime against humanity and the crime must be recorded - Source justiceproject.net
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