Derry und Belfast 1950er bis 1990er: In den Heimen der Sisters of Nazareth stellte eine staatliche Untersuchung systemischen Missbrauch fest, auch sexuellen durch Priester

Was den Menschen geschah

Wer war betroffen? Betroffene und Zahlen

1. Für St. Joseph’s Home in Termonbacca (Derry) stellte die Untersuchung fest: Einzelne Schwestern übten unangemessenes sexuelles oder körperliches Verhalten gegenüber Kindern aus; ebenso andere Erwachsene, Angestellte, Besucher und Priester sowie ältere Kinder. Schwestern und ihre Oberen wussten davon, unternahmen nichts oder zu wenig dagegen und meldeten den Missbrauch weder Sozialbehörden noch Polizei. Nazareth House in der Bishop Street in Derry beherbergte in rund hundert Jahren 2.347 Kinder; auch dort stellte die Untersuchung sexuellen Missbrauch durch einen Besucher und durch Priester fest, von dem die Schwestern wussten, ohne etwas zu tun. In Termonbacca sah sie keine systemische Vernachlässigung.
   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 103 (1)

   „We are satisfied that there was abuse in the form of improper sexual or physical behaviour by individual sisters towards children in their care.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 103 (2)

   „We are satisfied that there was abuse in the form of improper sexual or physical behaviour by other adults, employees, visitors and priests towards children in the care of the Sisters of Nazareth.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 103 (8)

   „We are satisfied that no, or alternatively inadequate, steps were taken by the Sisters of Nazareth to prevent such abuse.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 103 (9)

   „did not take proper steps to report such abuse to the relevant civil authorities, namely social services and the police“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 104

   „it seems that 2,347 children were accommodated in Bishop Street during its existence of approximately a century“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 140 (2)

   „We are satisfied that there was abuse in the form of improper sexual behaviour by a visitor and by priests towards children in the care of the Sisters.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 140 (5)

   „took no steps to prevent such abuse“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 5, Abs. 103 (6)

   „Although there is evidence of poor childcare in some respects, we consider this did not amount to systemic neglect.“

Was geschah mit den Betroffenen?

1. Im Mädchenheim Nazareth House in Belfast war laut Untersuchung systemischer Missbrauch: übermäßige Arbeit der Mädchen, seltenes Wechseln des Badewassers, Zähneputzen mit Karbolseife, Desinfektionsmittel (Jeyes Fluid) im Bad, grobe Behandlung beim Baden, Strafen für Bettnässerinnen, mangelhafte Pflege kranker Kinder bis zu körperlicher Misshandlung, das Wegnehmen persönlicher Dinge und öffentliche Körperstrafen in den 1950er Jahren. Die körperliche Misshandlung durch das Personal und der emotionale Missbrauch waren systemisch.
   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 8, Abs. 245 (a)

   „in our view the excessive chores expected of the girls constituted systemic abuse“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 8, Abs. 245 (b)

   „The infrequency of changing bath water, the use of carbolic soap to clean teeth, the use of Jeyes fluid in the bath, the rough treatment when bathing and the queuing were outdated institutional practices“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 8, Abs. 245 (c)

   „the measures would have been ineffective in dealing with enuresis and constituted very poor childcare practice, amounting to systemic abuse“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 8, Abs. 245 (d)

   „the physical abuse on some occasions, and the lack of loving care for children who were unwell. This amounted to systemic abuse.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 8, Abs. 245 (e)

   „There was no valid childcare justification for confiscating the children’s personal possessions, and this constituted systemic abuse.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 8, Abs. 245 (g)

   „The public corporal punishments inflicted in the 1950s constituted systemic abuse.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 8, Abs. 245 (h)

   „indicate that the physical abuse practised by the staff was systemic“

2. Im Jungenheim Nazareth Lodge in Belfast stellte die Untersuchung als systemischen Missbrauch fest: das grausame Verhalten einer Schwester gegenüber Bettnässern, Zwangsfüttern, Desinfektionsmittel in Bad und Haarwäsche und eine so ausgedehnte körperliche Misshandlung durch Schwestern und Personal, dass eine Atmosphäre der Strafe herrschte. Mehrere frühere Bewohner sagten, sie hätten Hunger gelitten; ein Junge aß Kartoffelschalen aus dem Mülleimer, ein Mädchen wurde noch 1977 mit zwei oder drei Tage altem Essen zwangsgefüttert. Ältere „charge boys“ mussten die jüngeren ohne Aufsicht der Schwestern kontrollieren, was zu schwerstem Mobbing führte und die Gelegenheiten für sexuellen Missbrauch erhöhte.
   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 9, Abs. 363 (c)

   „There was no justification for SR 118’s cruel conduct in dealing with enuretic boys, which amounted to systemic abuse.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 9, Abs. 363 (d)

   „We accept that force-feeding took place and it constituted systemic abuse.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 9, Abs. 363 (g)

   „was so extensive that it created a punitive atmosphere“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 9, Abs. 72

   „HIA 408 said the boys had steamed potatoes, and that they scavenged peel from the dustbin.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 9, Abs. 74

   „she was force-fed when the food was two or three days old“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 9, Abs. 363 (i)

   „It was the use of charge boys to supervise younger boys in the absence of the sisters which predictably led to the most serious bullying.“

   Beleg: Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Kap. 9, Abs. 363 (j)

   „the opportunities for sexual abuse were increased, and this amounted to systemic abuse“