AS one woman prepares to sue an order of nuns she
says abused her, a Merseyside family speaks to Mary Murtagh about their
own traumatic childhood. IT WAS a childhood secret the Maher family thought they would take
to their grave.
It is almost 50 years since Ray Maher and his sisters Pat, Sheila
and Eileen were left motherless and sent to Nazareth House, Crosby.
Their brutal treatment there, at the hands of the Poor Sisters of
Nazareth, is something the siblings have never spoken about -- until
now.