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S. Dakota kills bill from survivors of Catholic school abuse

by Associated Press
| February 25, 2020 12:05 AM

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Louise Aamot Charbonneau couldn't make her annual trip to the South Dakota Legislature this year to confront lawmakers with her story of surviving childhood rape and abuse at the hands of priests and nuns at a boarding school for Native Americans during the 1950s and 1960s.

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