NORTHERN IRELAND
Tyrone Times
A former Dungannon woman who was sent to Australia from a care home when she was a child has told the North’s Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry that she suffered feelings of “abandonment and isolation”.
The 63-year-old woman was transported to Australia in 1955 when she was aged four from Nazareth House home, Belfast, which was run by the Sisters of Nazareth.
The woman, who asked to maintain her anonymity, was one of approximately 130 children who were sent to Australia as part of a child migration programme between 1922 and 1995.
She said that soon after arrival she was fostered to a family who wanted to adopt her but that wasn’t allowed, the nuns told her, because her mother had not given permission. She took the name of the foster family and had a happy childhood. In the family she was “nurtured as a daughter and a sister”.
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