Friday February 26 2010
I am 76 years old and I wish to reply to James Kennedy (‘Victims of abuse milk the system’, Letters, February 24).
At the age of 23 months I was taken to a district court in Clane in Co Kildare and sentenced to 14 years in Goldenbridge Industrial School.
Most of the survivors of the institutions wanted justice. It is the leaders of the groups, put there by the Government, who are looking for money — not the victims.
Mr Kennedy is getting sick of the continuing saga of the victims of clerical abuse.
He asks what we want from the Catholic Church.
I want the judicial conviction I received as an infant to be expunged.
I want my medical files for the 14 years I spent in the hellhole that was Goldenbridge and all the details of where I came from and who my family are.
And I want the perpetrators to be brought to account in a court of law.
Mary Henderson
London
