Industrial school survivor recalls rape and beatings he endured
The officials who fed youngsters into the brutal religious-run industrial schools have to answer for their part in the harrowing ordeals suffered by abuse victims. Seamus Kelly, who runs Survivors Unite, said his own horrific story wouldn't have happened without the doctors, probation officials, gardai and teachers who wrote off him at an early age. "They need to be held accountable. Without them there would be no industrial schools," he said. A child tearaway whose attention deficit disorder went undiagnosed, Seamus was lucky to survive when in 1973 he fell from the roof of Cork city's Engli...
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