We are Kathleen and Robert Raskin of Las Vegas, and it’s stories like these that compel us to continue our crusade against corruption in the institutions that are bound to protect children. St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage first opened in the mid-1800s, but it is only now that the full scope of the horrors and abuse the orphans who were kept there were subjected to is known.

Now grown, children who were held in the facility are coming forward to report shocking abuse, including one account of a nun who was witnessed pushing a small boy out a window. Orphans’ injuries were not treated properly, a child drowned, children were cut and sexually abused, and that is just the beginning of the horrors that have been revealed in the long, detailed report.

In light of recent allegations of abuse involving over 300 members of the Catholic clergy, this report could not have come to light at a worse time for the church, who declined to give a statement in this case outside of confirming that they are doing everything they can to ensure children are protected today. That is simply not enough, and more needs to be done to put these priests behind bars to set an example.

How were these nuns able to abuse children for so many decades and get away with it? In the past it was more difficult to know when vulnerable children were put in harms way, but in today’s modern era we have the internet at our disposal, making it more difficult for would-be abusers to get away with it. Today it is inconceivable that so many thousands of children were put at risk. Let’s keep the heat turned up on organizations like CPS and DHR to make sure nothing like this can happen again in the future!