IT
WAS hot inside the hood. It covered eight-year-old Helen Holland’s face
loosely down to her neck and she could feel the warmth of her own
breath, hear the way it was fast and shallow with fear. Her heart was
thumping. Sister Kevin was shouting that the devil was inside her.
Holland was wicked and evil and brazen.
And then, recalls Holland,
Sister Kevin gripped her while a priest raped her. Holland is now 44 and
has never before spoken publicly about the true nature of the sexual
abuse she says she was subjected to in Nazareth House children’s home in
Kilmarnock.