NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Independent
MICHAEL MCHUGH – 29 JANUARY 2014
A priest told a former resident of a church-run children’s home in Northern Ireland that he was the product of an evil and satanic relationship, an inquiry has heard.
The son of an unmarried mother became a zombie, introverted and fearing the next beating, lying soaked in urine at night in an attempt to dissuade sexual abusers from “dropping the hand”, he told the hearing.
He lived at St Joseph’s in Termonbacca, Londonderry, run by the Sisters of Nazareth order of Catholic nuns, in the 1950s after being born in abject poverty and abandoned by his parents.
The child was later placed in a dormitory full of youngsters crying for their mothers.
“It would break your heart, you would have to have a heart of steel and cement, I used to join in crying. I had not a clue what mammy meant,” he recalled.
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