'Bethany Home survivors should be part of redress'
A survivor of the Bethany Home will continue to campaign for the inclusion of the home as part of State inquiries and redress schemes into baby and mother homes. Derek Linster maintains that the neglect he suffered at the Dublin based home resulted in a life-time of underlying health issues. Aged just seven months, Derek was placed with a family in Nun Cross, before being sent back to the Bethany Home. As a four year old Derek was fostered out to a family in Dunganstown, who he describes as "poor and dysfunctional". The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes found that a tot...
Source: independent.ie