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The waterfront property that's home to Burlington's growing Cambrian Rise neighborhood is a lovely spot, with stunning views of sunsets over Lake Champlain. If you visited it today, you might never know about the site's tragic past: From 1854 until 1974, it was home to St. Joseph's Orphanage, which housed 13,000 children during that time. Countless former residents have come forward since to describe physical and sexual abuse they endured at the hands of the nuns and other staff who ran the facility. ....
Mon, 12/14/2020 - 5:42pm tim Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJ Donovan, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George, Vermont State Police, and the Burlington Police Department today announced the conclusion of their criminal investigation into the former St Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington. No charges will be brought involving the Orphanage, which closed in 1974. Due to the statutes of limitation, which limit the timeframe during which criminal charges can be brought by the state, only the crime of murder would have been prosecutable due to the passage of time since the events of the allegations. Sufficient evidence to support a murder charge was not found. ....
Updated on December 14, 2020 at 7:25 pm NBC Universal, Inc. A task force that probed reports of decades-old abuse and even claims of homicide inside a former Catholic orphanage released a report Monday that was more than two years in the making. The lengthy document recognized many years of trauma and abuse suffered by children at the defunct St. Joseph s Orphanage in Burlington, but could not make a case for the most serious allegations by some former residents. The criminal case is closed, said Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan, who announced there were no findings to back a murder charge. We reserve the right to reopen it, should new information emerge. ....