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Violent nuns treated children at a Belfast care home with hatred, an alleged victim has told the High Court.
Michael McKee, 65, claimed he was beaten with a leather strap for either wetting or failing to make his bed properly at Nazareth Lodge.
Telling a judge he was attacked on a daily basis after entering the institution back in 1958, he questioned whether the alleged perpetrators viewed him as “sub-human”.
Mr McKee is suing The Sisters of Nazareth over the physical abuse he claims to have been subjected to during his stay as an eight-year-old boy.
Lawyers for the congregation are defending the action by challenging the reliability of his account and questioning why he waited half a century.
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