NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
An 89-year-old man has described how he was sexually abused by teenage boys and beaten by nuns at Nazareth Lodge home in Belfast.
He is the oldest witness to appear before the Historical Institutional Abuse in Banbridge, County Down.
The man, who appeared in a wheelchair, said he was just three years old when he arrived at the home.
He talked about being attacked. But he also said that as an adult he had a good life and was “free as a bird”.
The man said his father had abandoned the family and his mother left him at the home. She wanted to get an education in the hope that her family would have a better life, he said.
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