BURLINGTON (VT)
NBC5

September 10, 2018

By Renee Wunderlich

Katelin Hoffman said she and other former residents are cautiously hopeful about new task force investigating what happened to them in long-closed orphanage.

The Vermont attorney general’s office is asking for folks to come forward to help investigators piece together what happened in a local building back when it was an orphanage.

For some former residents, this isn’t the first time they’ve shared their stories — it’s just the first time so many have believed them.

“It’s actually so wonderful to be believed,” said Katelin Hoffman, who said she was 13 years old when she was sent to stay at St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage in Burlington, a place the state of Vermont is now investigating after allegations resurfaced that nuns there abused and even killed children.

“I don’t know … It was, like, any cruel thing they…