NORTHERN IRELAND
Derry Journal
A retired judge leading a public inquiry into historical child abuse at kids’ care homes in Derry has requested a one-year extension to his work.
Stormont’s first and deputy first ministers say Sir Anthony Hart made a persuasive and compelling case and they will recommend that the Executive agrees to lengthen the investigation.
The inquiry has already heard a series of allegations from former residents of two Derry care homes run by nuns.
St Joseph’s Boys’ Home, Termonbacca, and Nazareth House Children’s Home, at Bishop Street, were both run by the Sisters of Nazareth.
Former residents pf the Derry homes have told the inquiry that children were made to eat their own vomit and bathe in disinfectant.
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