Dozens of ex-residents of the Irish Catholic children’s home Termonbacca have recently come forward with accounts of sexual and physical abuse that they say occurred there decades ago.
Some of them reported slave-like conditions for the kids, referring to nuns kicking or caning residents considered not to be enthusiastic enough about scrubbing floors. One witness testified that a nun hit him so hard and so often in the head when he was a child that he suffered permanent hearing loss. Another was told that he was the son of the devil because his mother was unmarried when she got pregnant.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/02/27/irish-inquiry-hears-how-children-were-systematically-beaten-and-abused-in-catholic-home-for-children/
Some of them reported slave-like conditions for the kids, referring to nuns kicking or caning residents considered not to be enthusiastic enough about scrubbing floors. One witness testified that a nun hit him so hard and so often in the head when he was a child that he suffered permanent hearing loss. Another was told that he was the son of the devil because his mother was unmarried when she got pregnant.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/02/27/irish-inquiry-hears-how-children-were-systematically-beaten-and-abused-in-catholic-home-for-children/
