‘Horrendous cruelty endured in children’s home still haunts us’

FOR most of her life, 54-year-old Deirdre Harper has been petrified of water. She says the fear stems from an incident during her childhood when her head was repeatedly forced under water after she took a bath at the wrong time.
Other memories of those days include the time her face was pushed into urine-soaked sheets to punish her for wetting the bed. Then there are the countless beatings she endured from a leather strap that hung near a string of Rosary beads and the times she was pulled up flights of stairs by her hair.

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