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6 May 2016

Nuns did not believe girl was sexually abused

Witness to inquiry tells how she has been trying to find her sister for almost 50 years. A witness to the inquiry investigating historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland has recounted how nuns refused to believe her when she told them of how she was sexually abused when she was a young girl.
The 58-year-old woman also told the inquiry today how for almost 50 years she has been trying to locate her older sister who was with her in the Sisters of Nazareth home in Derry.