NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Times
Dan Keenan
Wed, Mar 5, 2014
A boy was physically punished so often by a nun in a Derry care home he ran away three times.
This incident triggered intense attention by social services, the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry heard.
The witness, who cannot be named, said the nun at the centre of his allegations “throttled” him on one occasion and repeatedly punished and humiliated him in front of others and he had to get away.
“I couldn’t get on with her because she just hated the ground I walked on, she beat me at every opportunity,” he alleged.
“She put me down, she denigrated me in front of everybody. I ran away from the place three times. On one occasion she actually throttled me and left marks on my neck. I ran away to my mother and my mother took me to the doctor and then across the Border. I think there was a notice put in the paper about me missing.”
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