NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Times
Dan Keenan in Banbridge, Co Down
Tue, Feb 11, 2014
The Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry has heard claims that a child was forced to perform oral sex on a nun.
A witness, who was a resident at Nazareth House in Derry’s Bishop Street during the 1960s, said she was between the ages of four and five when she was made to lie on her back on the floor by a nun who straddled her, lifting her habit and forcing the child to perform a sex act on her.
She said she was terrified.
She told the inquiry she reported the incident to another nun some time later. The witness, who cannot be identified, said the nun did get back to her, but now denies this ever happened.
“She said to me – she would have remembered if something like this had have been said – but I would swear on the Bible that this conversation took place,” she said.
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