5 Accused in This Religious Order
Sister Helen
Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/19 of sexually abusing two girls at the The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto orphanage. The girls were residents of the orphanage. Her accusers also alleged sexual abuse at the facility by other nuns and priests.
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Sister Joachim
Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/19 of sexually abusing a girl at the The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto orphanage. The girl was a resident of the orphanage. She also alleged sexual abuse by Sisters Helen, Georgine and Rev. Edmund Fogarty.
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Sister Juanita
Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/19 of sexually abusing a girl at the The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto orphanage. The girl was a resident of the orphanage 1953-67. She also alleged sexual abuse at the facility by Sisters Helen, Virginia Marie and Father Horry.
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Sister Rosemarie
Member of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin. Accused in a 6/19 court filing of repeatedly sexually abusing a girl in the early 1960s at Mount Loretto on Staten Island. Her accuser said she was a resident of the facility at ages 6 -11, during 1960-66. She said she was also physically abused almost daily by the nun and Sisters Agnes, Helen, Juanita and Philip-Marie, and a Mrs. Hartman.
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Sr. Virginia Marie
Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin. Accused in a lawsuit filed on 8/14/2019 of sexually, physically, and emotionally abusing a girl at the The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto orphanage. The girl was a resident of the orphanage 1953-1967. She also alleged sexual abuse by Sisters Helen, Sister Juanita, and Father Horry. Sister Virginia Marie is also accused of severely beating the plaintiff's sister, a resident 1952-1955, once so severely that the girl had convulsions and needed transport by ambulance, and of physically and emotionally abusing a boy, resident 1953-1967.