IRELAND
Irish Independent
Kathy Armstrong
August 7 2017
A survivor of the Bethany mother and baby home claims he has been “left to rot” by the State because he is a Protestant.
Despite Derek Leinster suffering physically and emotionally after being born in the Dublin institution in 1941, he has never received any kind of redress.
He told Independent.ie he is determined to get justice for survivors, saying, “I won’t give up until the day I die.”
Derek was born to an unwed mother in the home and from when he was seven months old he was “nursed out” to families to be cared for.
He said: “We would be sent to families to be looked after, they would get paid a few shillings.
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