Did a Couple Adopt a Native American Child for $10 in 1952?

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Did a Couple Adopt a Native American Child for $10 in 1952?
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This letter purportedly documenting a Catholic orphanage's sale of a Native American child to an Illinois couple is circulating on social media right now. Here's the backstory. 👇

Two dozen former occupants of the orphanage joined the lawsuit, which was ultimatelyin 2011. They sued the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls and several religious orders over alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse committed by 15 named Catholic clergymen and nuns between 1941 and 1982.

Seely says otherwise. In one incident, he says Pohlen — who would have been 65 years old at the time — sexually abused Seely, who was then a four-year-old boy, tricking him with the promise of a lollipop.

I had to work my way, you know, to get my food. I lived about a mile and a half from the high school, in West Chicago, Illinois, and never once did they ever take me to school in bad weather... I walked.

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