IRELAND
Irish Independent
TIM HEALY – PUBLISHED 02 MAY 2014
A WOMAN sent to a children’s hospital aged 13 where she cooked and cleaned from 6am to 10pm daily for two years under an arrangement described by a High Court judge as resembling “a form of slavery” is entitled to seek redress, the court has ruled.
Now aged in her sixties, the woman claimed to have been sexually abused by older male patients and by a priest at the hospital and to have witnessed abuse of patients.
She said she was sent as a resident to the hospital by her mother, was not permitted to return home at Christmas, Easter, her birthday or any other holidays and was frightened to leave “because of the consequences”.
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