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28 January 2017

Children were sexually abused, beaten, humiliated and lived in fear

The nuns who ran Termonbacca Boys’ Home in Derry failed to act over serious and repeated episodes of sexual abuse and violence perpetrated against young children. That was one of a number of key conclusions reached by the Historical Abuse Inquiry .
A harrowing catalogue of abuse was detailed by the Inquiry, including improper sexual and physical behaviour and emotional abuse perpetrated by older boys, individual sisters, several priests and visitors .

http://www.derryjournal.com/news/crime/children-were-sexually-abused-beaten-humiliated-and-lived-in-fear-1-7787619