IRELAND
Irish Mirror
BY JAMES WARD
5 MAR 2017
A woman raised in a Church-run institution has spoken of how the Tuam scandal brought memories of her horrific childhood flooding back.
Maz Nolan, 63, told the Irish Sunday Mirror she had to speak out after news broke of the 800 babies buried at the Galway Mother and Baby Home.
She revealed her heartbreaking story of abuse at the hands of cruel nuns and the scars that she bears to this day.
She remembers being beaten by one of the Sisters of Nazareth when she couldn’t do her math homework.
Maz said: “She actually had a branch of a tree that she had carved all the twigs off it. I was hit on the knuckles with it, that was my first experience of cruelty.
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