AND did anyone see the Puffing Billy stories over the past day????

Management Hid Paedophillia in their organisation for decades... 

looks like the church wasn 't the only place institutionalising such crimes... 

Most only imagine their response after the fact.  At the time, shock reigns.  For more baptism hijinks, YouTube has a feast, including long and short versions of the French priest affair.  The French priest had nothing on the Orthodox.  See YouTube for bear-like Orthodox priests body-slamming infants into fonts.  Upsy-daisy style.  SLAM.  Kid is thrust forcefully head-first into font.  Baseball professionalism.  Split second later, same kid is slammed rrs first into font.  Swing kid around swiftly and it's head-first again.  Then bum first. Then head first.  Three dunkings each end.  Kid is handed to parents, half drowned and psychologically damaged, spitting water from nose and mouth.  Then it's the next infant's turn


Must add substantially to the trauma suffered at ridiculous circumcision if the kid's a boy


Welcome to the World, kid.  It just gets worse from here


But, having said that, it was organised religion which sought to transform semi-civilized peasants to semi-sane humans


Not too long ago, women gave birth to a dozen or more children.  When that breed-mare died, the man chose another one and produced a dozen more.  So the lives of those children was no picnic, with or without brutal baptisms and circumcisions.  Girls of seven were forced to become psuedo mothers to the growing line of younger ones.  No childhood.  Hard work from almost birth to death


As Fraser said, life wasn't meant to be easy.  Although his was