Connecting Singles^® Forums100% Free Online Dating

Aurore Gagnon (May 31, 1909 - February 12, 1920), was a victim of child abuse. She died of blood poisoning and general exhaustion, from the many wounds she received from her abusive father Télesphore Gagnon and stepmother, Marie-Anne Houde. Her biological mother, Marie-Anne Caron, was being treated in a hospital for tuberculosis until her death in 1918. The story of l'enfant martyre received great attention in the media and Aurore became an icon of Quebec popular culture.
Chronology of events
In 1916, in the town of Fortierville, Quebec. Marie-Anne Houde arrived in the Gagnon household to help Télesphore while his wife was in the hospital. On November 6, 1917, Aurore's younger brother named Joseph Gagnon died at the age of two under mysterious circumstances. The following January, Marie-Anne Caron's illness took her life. Only one week after the death of his wife, Télesphore Gagnon married Marie-Anne Houde. In September and October of 1919, Aurore spent time at the "Hôtel-Dieu de Québec" because of an injury to her foot that would not heal. She later died in February of 1920.
For her role in her stepdaughter's death, Marie-Anne Houde received a death sentence, but this was reduced to a term of life because of public pressure (she was pregnant when she received her death sentence). Aurore's father received a life sentence but was released after only 5 years for good behaviour. Houde died of cancer in May 1936, a year after her release from prison.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aecTwKqshg




each time i see that movie Aurore L'enfant martyre i start to cry some parts in the movie i can't watch when her step mom burn her legs with a stove handle or when she burn her face with the iron on the picture she put her hand on a stove each time i see that it make's me mad that alot of children are abuse and no one declare it to social services just what happen to aurore. i so want to have kids but i can't what makes me mad is those who have kids and abandon them by a river or in the forest at a young age i even had seen a 3 month old infant in the toilet bowl with spem on him his dad make the baby su*k him discusting.

How come in 2008 adult don't reasonate more are we still so ingnorant not to see that alot of childrens need more attention and care

don't EVEN get me started on this issue!!

Serioulsy I find this way to heavy

Yes, it's heavy, but is it real?

LIfe is ugly, brutal, disgusting, humiliating, and then you die....

The amazing thing is....we also say, life is beautiful....sometimes...

Truth is, both points of view are true....

i know it makes all us mad

but i am sad that in 2008 thing's like this still exist

My logic in this i keep it simple ..

one cant take care of their children .. dont have them !!

Spare everyone the agony .. PERIOD !!


Unless dire situations arise which make no alternative possible... i think we are accountable for the offsprings wellbeing and nurturing .. so if you cant ... then why go for it ..

Weather it is or not I have heard much worse story’s , so there is no doubt that for some of our most innocent / venerable members of society an extreme amount of suffering go’s on

as long as there are people....they will be power issues


as long as there is power issues...there will be abuse

as long as there is abuse...there will be helpless children

Suffer the little children....

Arrghhh!

I hate this.. I know we all (most) do.. but doesn't it make you want to tear someone limb from limb.. it does me.

Kids, animals and the elderly...the worst sort of victims.
I always tell my girls to come and tell me if any of their friends at school ever say anything about abuse. If I just knew it was happening, I would find a way to intervene!!!

In my job working often with vulnerable adults.. I have had to Whistle blow a few times.. It's a horrible thing to have to do.. especially if you are only 'suspicious' ... but SO FAR :: touch wood:: I haven't been wrong yet.

Yeah but it would be even more horrible if you didn’t and something was going on as far as I am concerned when it comes to the venerable better safe than sorry

Good for you! If only more people would do it. I saw a couple of truly horrific things during our hospital stay - all of it in ICU. I WILL report them - but noting will ever wipe the memories away.

I can only imagine how many other things occur....

The only thing that makes me want to give up my life and dedicate it to a worthy cause, is the issue of child abuse....the concept that we, as the highest life form on the planet, are the only animal to systematically abuse our offspring, fills me with a horror and a loathing that I cannot express here....what does it say about progress, and civilization....it traumatizes me me just to think about it....

I had to report a work colleague a few years ago.. We had to double up on a client (in her own home)... and my colleague was extremely rough in handling the client.. as well as being verbally abusive (badly)..

What shocked me also.. was that she was behaving like this IN FRONT of me..

what scared me more was how was she behaving on the other 13 visits she did for this client .. alone.

I am going to say something here that is going to piss off a lot of people. But it is my habit, to say what is on my mind and I don't sugar coat things!!

At least this child died ar an early age!! At least this child, for all it's pain and suffering, found peace and love while still a child. Someone posted "...suffer the little children" The rest of that from the New Testament is "suffer the little children to come unto me...for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" This child found his kingdom.

What I am about to tell you, I want no sympathy about. Please no flowers or mails. I am just stating facts. So you know that I know about child abuse.

When I was six years old, I remember my step mother telling my father to either get rid of the kids or she was leaving him. My father with all his back bone and balls...chose her over his children ( whom he took from my mother and left the state).

At the age of six, I was placed in foster care. My foster father was a police officer...this will become important later in the story!

Almost immediately, I was forced to provide oral sex for my foster father. Which soon progressed to sodomy!! On a six year old!! This continued until I was 15 years old.....when I ran away for the last time!!

In addition to the sexual abuse there was the physical abuse. If I did something wrong, like leave the light on, when I left the room, I was stripped naked and tied to a post in the cellar of the house. This is where the police issue comes in. He had a wide police belt, that was cut in strips halfway down the length of the belt. This was used to whip me with, again, for what were really minor infractions.

Then would force me to "service" him while still bleeding or in pain.

We didn't have all the child protection services we now have. In 1956, a child who was in foster care, really didn't know anything, except that there was a roof over his head and he had hot food. Which is something I didn't have before foster care. We usually ate what we could steal from parked delivery trucks!


I ran away many times from that foster home...but they always returned me to the same home. I was too embarrassed to tell them why I kept running away from there. Would they believe me anyway?? This was a pillar of the community. A policeman. A member of the Christian Missionary Alliance Church...against the word of a unwanted vagrant child that should be happy that someone took him in!!

There was a case here last week about a woman getting 12yrs for starving her 2-3yr old daughter to death.. locked in a back room above the pub.

This is why I hate these types of threads it brings horrible memories back for some of us. On that note I'm outta this thread.

And ship thanks for sharing not many want to share something that runs so deep.

I say that this chils was lucky that it dies at an early age...and I mean that.

Because of what i experienced as a child. I am unable to trust anyone. I have never loved anyone and am not capable of doing so. This is an awful existance, knowing I will never love anyone.

The scars people leave on their children are more painful than death at an early age, That child eventually found love. That child suffered less in the long run



I will get off my soap box, now

Thanks for reading....no e-mails, please