Two half-brothers, in prison for killing a priest, tell a story of abuse in New Orleans
by Jason Berry, National Catholic Reporter
“Some 660 alleged survivors have claims against the New Orleans Archdiocese in its long bankruptcy. Attorneys Frank Lamothe III and Kristi Schubert have 75 clients. Twenty-three of them are prisoners; most allege abuse at two long-shuttered orphanages, Hope Haven and Madonna Manor.”
“Two of these men had a different path to prison.”
Here’s the story of Bernard Joseph and Marcus Hamilton, half-brothers, who are serving life terms in Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, for murdering Fr. Patrick McCarthy in 1988.
