NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Times
Dan Keenan
Tue, Mar 4, 2014
A woman who was repeatedly physically abused at a Derry children’s home has said she was also raped while in care outside the institution.
The witness told the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry heard the claims from the woman who is now herself a foster parent. She told the inquiry panel she and her husband provided a home for children in care because she “didn’t want them to go through what I went through”.
The witness, who cannot be identified, cited regular beatings from a named nun who also showed bias against children who “did not tell her things”. The inquiry heard this nun also force-fed children who refused to east the institution’s porridge.
She said her and her siblings had to walk to school rather and were not brought there in a bus driven by the same nun because they were not among “her favourites”.
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