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10 October 2014

Nazareth House: Tragic child 'slapped for eating toxic berries'

A child at Nazareth House children's home who died after eating poisonous berries was slapped across the face by one of the nuns for making herself sick, a witness told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
The woman, who was a resident at Nazareth House from 1940 when she was aged three until she left in 1954, said her memory of the home was that it was very strict and that two nuns in particular were "very cruel".