NORTHERN IRELAND
Mirror
Jan 27, 2014 16:11 By Steve Robson
The largest ever public inquiry into child abuse at residential care homes in Northern Ireland has heard harrowing details of victim’s experiences
Children at residential homes run by Catholic nuns in Northern Ireland were made to eat their own vomit, a lawyer said.
Others who wet their beds were forced to put soiled sheets on their heads by members of a harsh regime devoid of love, the largest ever public inquiry into child abuse at residential homes was told.
Young people at Sisters of Nazareth properties in Londonderry were known by their numbers rather than names and many allegedly subjected to humiliation, threats and physical abuse, counsel to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry Christine Smith QC said.
Kathleen Forrest, a ministry of home affairs inspector, said in a 1953 report: “I find these homes utterly depressing and it appals me to think that these hundreds of children are being reared in bleak lovelessness.”
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