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20 March 2017

Mother and Baby Home survivor reveals lifetime impact of abuse and deprivation at notorious Bethany Home

"I suffered from rickets so my legs couldn’t carry my own weight... I was malnourished".  A survivor of a notorious mother and baby home has told how he was so neglected he ended up with a steel knee, a plastic hip and “riddled with arthritis”.
James Fenning, 75, has little memory of the years he spent in the Church of Ireland-run Bethany Home in Dublin.

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