AP: Former Immaculate Conception Students Want School Closed

According to an article on The Huffington Post syndicated from the Associated Press, dozens of former students of Immaculate Conception in Wakefield are asking the Vatican to close the school because of the psychological abuse they suffered trying to live as teenage nuns there.

According to the Associated Press, e-mail exchanges with past students have revealed complaints of anorexia, extreme migraines and intentional policies of social isolation.

"Looking back, I was suicidal," said Sarita Duffy, now a 28-year-old mother of three in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. "I never took a bottle of pills or slit my wrists, but I was fully content with the possibility of never waking up again."

For the full piece, click here. The order behind the school, the Legion of Christ, was discredited and reformed by the Vatican following 2009 revelations about the founder.