18/11/2025
Religious Scandal: Convent Sold "Blessed Babies" for $200 Each, All Were Nuns' Slave Children
In the heart of 19th-century Louisiana, where cypress trees dipped their roots into brown water and sugar fields shimmered under punishing sun, a religious institution quietly did the devil’s work in God’s name.
Between 1842 and 1856, the Sisters of Perpetual Mercy in St. Augustine Parish issued birth certificates with a neat, repeated figure in the margins:
$200.
Eighty-seven babies.
Fourteen years.
Three parishes.
On paper, every case was described as a “blessed adoption” — an act of Christian charity, giving unfortunate children new lives with devout Catholic families.
But the fire that ripped through the convent’s east wing in March 1856 didn’t just char brick and timber. It burned through the lies.
Inside a scorched office, investigators found ledgers, lists, and letters that told a different story
𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 👇
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