FOR MORE than 100 years, the Poor Sisters of Nazareth cared for
children in the order's dozens of homes across Britain. Orphans,
abandoned babies and children deemed uncontrollable or accused of petty
crimes were all put in the hands of the nuns who, to the outside world,
epitomised kindness and compassion.
But today, many of those who were in the sisters' care have come forward to claim that, behind the locked doors of Nazareth House (all the homes had this name), the nuns maintained a ruthless regime. Beatings and acts of extreme cruelty were commonplace, they say, and together with the spartan existence in the home, gave them lives of utter misery.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/nuns-abused-hundreds-of-children-1171988.html
But today, many of those who were in the sisters' care have come forward to claim that, behind the locked doors of Nazareth House (all the homes had this name), the nuns maintained a ruthless regime. Beatings and acts of extreme cruelty were commonplace, they say, and together with the spartan existence in the home, gave them lives of utter misery.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/nuns-abused-hundreds-of-children-1171988.html