NORTHERN IRELAND
Huffington Post
Children at residential homes run by Catholic nuns were treated like prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp, a former resident has claimed.
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 the church-run “hell hole” were made to eat their own vomit, the court had already been told.
Young people at Sisters of Nazareth properties in Derry 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.
One witness told the inquiry on Tuesday he was put in a chain gang polishing floors, bathed in detergent as punishment and sexually assaulted by a woman when he was aged five or six.
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