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Sister Mary Cynthia
posted by GiaSTAFFMOD on February 26, 2017 at 10:42 PM
When Sister Mary Cynthia was attacked, was she raped? I can't remember.
Reply by bratface
on February 27, 2017 at 1:31 AM
If I'm remembering correctly, I don't think so (but I could be wrong). But the whole ordeal was still traumatic for her.
Reply by Gia
on February 27, 2017 at 9:08 PM
Yeah I don't think so either but she's still going through PTSD from it. They just didn't know how to treat it back then.
Reply by bratface
on February 27, 2017 at 10:48 PM
I just saw that episode and yes she was raped, otherwise Trixie wouldn't have said she shouldn't bathe until she was examined. Hard to watch.
Reply by Gia
on February 28, 2017 at 10:44 PM
Oh was she? Wow, I must not have been paying full attention when I watched it. That explains a lot. Thanks for that.
Reply by cavylover75
on March 2, 2017 at 12:39 PM
I just watched that episode and I distinctly remember Sister Mary Cynthia saying that she was not raped but she was beaten and the guy bit her.
Reply by clunybrown2017
on May 2, 2017 at 8:16 PM
I've actually blocked it out. Very hard to watch. I think I just assumed that she was. What is very shocking is how backwards they were as recently as the 1960s when it came to things like that, PTSD, rape, Down syndrome. I was a child back in the 1960s and, thankfully, things started to turn around in the 1970s as far as a new sensitivity and understanding regarding these things and others .
What shocks me is that it looks like the Mother House sent her to the asylum.
Reply by Mrs. Y
on May 4, 2017 at 10:30 PM
I took it that she was raped also. I guess from Trixie's comment. Oh, that was so sad.