Child abuse inquiry: Church-run 'hell hole' homes were 'like Nazi concentration camps'
I was going to post this to a group for children's issues/rights but was surprised to find there is no such group. With so many topics pertinent to children's rights, such as labor laws, human trafficking, abuse scandals, shouldn't there be one?
Anyway, as more and more of these stories come out I have to wonder, who watches the watchers when it comes to private/religious schools? There's another investigation right now into a prestigious religious school for boys in Scotland where the boys were sexually abused -- and this was recent.
The Belfast Telegraph, NI
Child abuse inquiry: Church-run 'hell hole' homes were 'like Nazi concentration camps'By Michael McHugh – 28 January 2014
Church-run "hell hole" children's homes in Ireland were like Nazi concentration camps, a former resident claimed.
He was in a chain gang polishing floors, bathed in detergent as punishment and sexually assaulted by a woman when he was aged five or six, the witness told the UK's largest ever inquiry into child abuse.
The Sisters of Nazareth order of nuns oversaw St Joseph's Home in Termonbacca in Londonderry and used to bath the children in Jeyes fluid.
The witness claimed: "It was kind of like a Zyklon B gas chamber."... MORE
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/child-abuse-inquiry-churchrun-hell-hole-homes-were-like-nazi-concentration-camps-29957460.html