NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
19 MAY 2014
A former nun interviewed by police investigating alleged abuse at a children’s home in Northern Ireland has said she loved the young people, a public inquiry heard.
In the 1970s, the ex-nun worked at Termonbacca boy’s home in Londonderry, run by the Sisters of Nazareth religious order, and admitted witnessing sexual acts. But the woman denied causing physical or sexual harm.
The treatment of young people, orphaned or taken away from their unmarried mothers, in residential homes run by nuns, brothers or the state is a key concern of the UK’s largest ever institutional child abuse investigation being held in Banbridge, Co Down.
It is considering cases between 1922, the foundation of Northern Ireland, and 1995.
The former nun said: “I gave my best part of my life to caring for kids in Nazareth House and I loved every minute of it and I loved them.
“I cannot undo what people have said about me.”
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