NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Sun
By Deborah McAleese
29th May 2017
A VICTIM of historic child abuse at a Catholic Church children’s home is to make an emotional return to her hometown in a bid to trace her long lost family.
Kate Walmsley, 60, was seven years old when she was taken from her home in Glasgow and placed in the care of the Sisters of Nazareth in Derry following the break-up of her parents’ marriage.
While there she was regularly sexually assaulted by a priest and beaten by the nuns.
After more than five decades away from home Ms Walmsley is to make her first trip back to Scotland on Wednesday where she hopes to trace some family members.
Ms Walmsley said: “I have always wanted to go back to the place where I remember being happy, before all the abuse. I finally feel it is time.”
“I just want to stand on the street I used to live with my parents. I have so many happy memories of there.
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