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Noah, my younger brother, does not talk. Nor can he dress himself, prepare a meal for himself or wipe himself. He is a 42-year-old man, balding, gaunt, angry and, literally, crazy. And having spent 15 years at the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., a state facility, Noah has picked up the con's trick of lashing out before anyone could take a shot...
...brother seemed almost in critical condition; we had no choice but to find yet another new place for Noah...
...announced the case will be referred to Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, the nation's highest religious official, who will rule on Moustafa's death sentence on June 25. Upon hearing the verdict, Moustafa's sister reportedly fainted in the courtroom just a few feet from the cage where her brother stood imprisoned during the trial...
...Christian Brothers ran more industrial schools in Ireland than any other religious order. Indeed, for much of the 20th century, the group was responsible for providing primary and secondary education for the majority of Catholic boys in the country. The order has come under fire from campaigners like Raftery for allegedly blocking the work of the child-abuse commission. The inquiry was delayed for more than a year, after the Christian Brothers won a court case preventing members and former members from being named in the commission's final report - including those who had already been convicted of abuse. "There...
...only after the first wave of scandals broke in the '90s that he felt able to tell his story. "Years ago, if I had mentioned to anyone here what had happened, no one would have believed me," he says. "Everyone here thought that whatever a priest or a brother said was the gospel truth. It's only since all of this blew up that people started saying to me, 'Did that really happen in the schools?' Now I can turn round...