'Shh! 'Don't Tell'; a True Story of Survival

'Shh! 'Don't Tell'; a True Story of Survival

Author: Miriam Moriarty Owens

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 9781447744719

Category: Abused children

Page: 287

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In 1959 my mother became ill from TB and we were left in the care of my father and grandmother. The ISPCC deemed my father an unfit parent to look after us and as a result, my sisters and I were sentenced to 14 years in Pembroke Alms Industrial School where we were placed in the care of the Sisters of Mercy. While there, my sisters and I were subjected to horrendous, almost unimaginable cruelty and abuse, both physically and mentally, the scars of which I still feel today