An independent investigation into allegations of abuse at children’s
homes run by the Swiss Ingenbohl Sisters of Mercy has found serious
failings by the Roman Catholic nuns but has discounted the worst
allegations involving deaths in care.
The excessive punishment
doled out by some sisters was mainly due to the “systemic misery” of the
homes, where both children and carers experienced hardship, the
commission of experts found in its review of the decades from 1928 to
the 1970s.