NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A former resident at St Joseph’s Catholic home, Termonbacca, has told the Historical Abuse Inquiry how he was punished for being left-handed.
Jon McCourt, a high profile campaigner to get the inquiry set up, has waived his right to anonymity.
He also told the inquiry that he did not realise two other boys in a photograph were his brothers.
The inquiry is investigating abuse claims against children’s residential institutions in NI from 1922 to 1995.
Termonbacca and another Derry home, Nazareth House, were run by the Sisters of Nazareth.
He told the inquiry on Thursday: “I remember, when I was about five years old, being constantly beaten by one particular nun, to get me to stop writing with my left hand.”
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