NORTHERN IRELAND
Derry Journal
A public inquiry has heard that a young girl was cruelly treated by nuns and beaten “black and blue” during her time at Nazareth House Children’s Home in Derry.
Today, the inquiry, sitting in Banbridge, Co. Down, heard from a 58-year-old witness who was a resident at the Bishop Street home for girls from 1957 to 1969.
She recalled that, during her time there, some of the nuns were cruel and one nun would often beat her, hitting her with a belt she wore round her neck.
She told the inquiry that she was also beaten black and blue with a stick.
The witness said that, at bath time, 100 girls were forced to queue up with no privacy and the bath water was never changed.
She said that, when she was 12 years old, she was sent out to what was described as a placement at two farms in the summer and was forced to do manual work.
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