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THE WHOLE STORY
Introduction
How It All Began
Sister Plante's Downfall
Sister Plante Fights Back
Commentary and Analysis
Part 1
Commentary and Analysis
Part 2
August, 2000
Summary of Events to the Present
Who is Sister Plante?
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The Most Mystifying Story You'll Ever Read...
The Unholy Treatment
of Sister Michaelinda Plante
 ister Michaelinda Plante is a vowed member of the religious order of The Sisters of Mercy, an order founded in Ireland in 1831 to minister to the poor and oppressed. For forty-three years Sister Plante had worked in the field of education, holding an Ed.D degree, serving in important administrative capacities and distinguishing herself with her work for struggling parochial schools.
In the summer of 1993, Sister Plante was contacted by the family of a former student to mediate in a dispute between the family, its supporters, and a local chapter of the suicide-prevention agency, The Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford. (Please see Disclaimer) Sister Plante wrote letters and arranged meetings with administrators of the Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford, seeking an explanation for the rejection of donations, commendations, and gifts that comprised a "praise campaign" for the agency and its work. No explanation was ever made. Instead, the Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford went to Sister Plante's superiors with a list of unsubstantiated accusations. A year after she began attempting mediation between the family and the Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford, Sister Plante was placed on involuntary disciplinary leave of absence from her position, and ordered to undergo tests to determine if she was mentally unstable. She was evicted from her residence, and eventually pressured to resign. She was denied references by her former employers and religious superiors and has been unemployed ever since. She has filed two lawsuits for defamation of character and wrongful termination that both were dismissed on legal technicalities. She is now suing her former attorney for legal malpractice. But simple justice seems to elude Sister Plante at every turn.
In the years since her resignation, the story has taken so many bizarre twists and turns that one reporter justly called it "Byzantine". There has been more inaccurate, incomplete, misleading and just plain shabby news coverage and "investigation" into this affair than there has been into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But the haphazard and one-sided reportage is now at an end.
On this website, for the very first time, you are about to read the entire story of "the Ross Saga," the Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford, and how Sister Plante met with disaster. Here, as never before, are the facts laid out in detail, in chronological order, with accompanying correspondence, legal documents, news coverage, commentary by principal parties, and other important information. Read it and make up your own mind!
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DISCLAIMER
The author of this website and the Friends of Sister Plante wish to make it completely clear that Sister Plante's dispute is with the administrators of The Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford, Inc., ONLY. Sister Plante has no desire or intention to impugn the integrity or reputation of any other Samaritans agency, nor of the actual volunteer hotline staff of the Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford, Inc. To indicate this, the written material will always refer to this agency by name or as the Samaritans/FRNB. |
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