As an abuse case begins in Northern Ireland, was the Protestant government as culpable as the Catholic Church?
Sitting opposite me in a hotel room in the town where she was brought up, Katie Walmsley quietly described her childhood. Her parents were splitting up, a priest suggested to her dad that the best place for her would be a children's home for girls. The nuns would keep her safe and well.
Sitting opposite me in a hotel room in the town where she was brought up, Katie Walmsley quietly described her childhood. Her parents were splitting up, a priest suggested to her dad that the best place for her would be a children's home for girls. The nuns would keep her safe and well.
"I held on to my daddy's trousers," at the door of the big,
imposing building, she said. The nuns pulled her in, and within ten
minutes she was sitting with her sister in a bath mixed with jeyes fluid
(a toxic industrial detergent people normally use nowadays to get
congealed fat out of drains).
