NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A woman has made an impassioned plea to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry seeking an apology for a child migrant scheme from Northern Ireland to Australia.
More than 100 children were shipped out in the mid 1900s.
The woman described how children were told upon arrival that they were there “to fill the empty cradles of Australia”.
She said they were later subjected to cruelty.
Giving evidence, via video link from Australia, she said the children had became part of what she described as a “child labour force” at a home run by Catholic nuns.
Appealing for an apology, the former child migrant said she wanted “someone to be made accountable” for the suicides of her two brothers.
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