NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Times
Dan Keenan
A priest told a former resident of a Derry residential home run by nuns that he must never repeat allegations of sex and other abuse.
A witness told the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry, which is investigating allegations of ill treatment of children at 13 care homes in Northern Ireland before 1995, the priest told him to stay silent about his claims concerning the home at Termonbacca in Derry, run by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth.
The witness, who cannot be identified, said he approached a priest later in life and told him of physical and sexual abuse he suffered.
He said the priest replied: “You must never speak about this. You and the other orphans are bastards, you are the product of an evil and satanic relationship.”
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