'I told a lie and the nun beat me repeatedly with scissors'
David Lane bites his nails so much that he has to wear false tips. Despite almost fifty years spent biting, the pain of the past can’t be eaten away. The
54-year-old is one of the countless victims who suffered horrific abuse
while in the care of an order of nuns in one of Ireland’s former
children’s institutions. David Lane was born 1955 in Trim, Slane
and after being diagnosed with spina bifida, his mother, who already
cared for a large family, had no choice but to put him into care.
