It was 1981, and though Wadding said she was
not a victim of “cruelty or physical abuse”, she, like the other girls
at the home, suffered emotional and psychological abuse that would stay
with them for the rest of their lives. Deirdre Wadding says her time in the Cork mother and baby home in 1981 has haunted her ever since. “I shared a room with a girl who was only
13-years-old, she was a child. I was 18, she sobbed her heart out for
her mother every night and I mean it was incredibly, incredibly
traumatic,” she said.
