NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Alan Erwin
PUBLISHED
07/11/2015
A former children’s care home resident allegedly treated with “callous indifference” has been denied compensation because it took him too long to make a claim.
At the High Court, Mr Justice Horner said Michael McKee would have been entitled to £6,500 over his stay at Nazareth Lodge in Belfast nearly 60 years ago.
But the claim was dismissed because of the excessive time he took to bring proceedings.
The 65-year-old sued the Sisters of Nazareth over the physical abuse he allegedly suffered as an eight-year-old in 1958.
Mr McKee, who spent 73 days at the home, told the court he had been attacked every day.
He alleged he had been beaten around the head and pulled to the ground, and claimed that one alleged perpetrator used a 12-inch leather strap to punish any boy who wet the bed.
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