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Nuns at a Belfast care home allegedly beat children for slow learning in the classroom, the High Court heard on Monday.
One former resident at Nazareth Lodge is also entitled to damages for punishments meted out after boys wet their beds, it was claimed.
Counsel for Michael McKee argued: “He was a happy boy when he went in and wasn’t a happy boy when he came out.”
Mr McKee, 65, is suing The Sisters of Nazareth over the physical abuse he was allegedly subjected to during his stay as an eight-year-old boy back in 1958.
Lawyers for the congregation are defending the case by challenging the reliability of his account and questioning why he waited half a century to take legal action.
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