IRELAND
Independent
January 22, 2021
By Aodhan O Faolain
Woman (50s) who became pregnant at 15 claims in High Court action she was forced to work at Cork’s Bessborough House and subjected to ‘harsh and unsafe’ conditions
A FORMER resident of a mother and baby home in Cork has initiated a High Court damages action against the State, the HSE and the order of Catholic nuns who ran the facility.
The action has been brought by Caroline Donovan who was a resident of Bessborough House in Cork on two occasions, once in the mid-1980s and also for a period during the early 1990s.
She says that while there she was subjected to physical and emotional abuse which it is claimed amounted to a breach of her constitutional rights.
The action is understood to be one of the first brought following the publication earlier this month of the final report by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.
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