NORTHERN IRELAND
The Guardian (UK)
Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
theguardian.com, Tuesday 28 January 2014
Nuns at a care home for children in Northern Ireland behaved like they were psychotic, the largest ever inquiry in UK legal history into child abuse has heard.
A former child resident told the inquiry on Tuesday that the Sisters of Nazareth in the Termonbacca care home thumped and kicked children.
In his evidence to the historical institutional abuse inquiry, the witness described the Derry home as a “hellhole” and akin to a concentration camp.
Some children, dressed in rags, were chained and forced to clean floors, the man told the inquiry at Banbridge courthouse.
The witness said he was once sexually abused by a woman at the home, although he could not recall if it was a nun or a civilian worker. At the time he was aged five or six years and was later transferred from the Derry home to another run by the Christian Brothers in the Irish Republic.
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