Amid general shock and outrage over China's so-called ‘Dying Rooms’, the
focus of shame draws uncomfortably closer to home tomorrow evening when
RTE broadcasts 'Dear Daughter,' a harrowing documentary about Christine
Buckley, for 13 years a ward of the Goldenbridge orphanage in Dublin.
Her account of systematic humiliation and abuse, of deprivation, beatings and scaldings, suggests that for over a decade this Sisters of Mercy house ran on a form of discipline closer to sadism than charity.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/archive-goldenbridge-a-hell-for-orphans-30082643.html
Her account of systematic humiliation and abuse, of deprivation, beatings and scaldings, suggests that for over a decade this Sisters of Mercy house ran on a form of discipline closer to sadism than charity.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/archive-goldenbridge-a-hell-for-orphans-30082643.html