Sister Bernard Mary Murray and others; No Justice for the abused children
[1] The pursuers in each of these three actions were at one time
residents of a children's home run by the Congregation of the Poor
Sisters of Nazareth, an order of nuns who are the second defenders in
each case; the first defender is the Religious Superior of the order.
In each case damages are claimed on the basis that the pursuer suffered
physical abuse during the time when he or she was under the charge of
the second defenders; in each case individual nuns are said to have
been directly responsible for the abuse. The three actions were raised
in May 2000. Approximately 290 other actions were raised at the same
time on similar grounds against the same defenders. I was informed that
a large number of other broadly similar actions have been raised
against other bodies that ran children's homes between the 1950s and
the 1980s; these include Quarrier's Homes, Barnardo's and the De La
Salle Brothers.
