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Time barred test case over child abuse

A woman who sued a religious order which ran a children’s home has lost her claim for compensation.The woman alleged that she had been abused in a Catholic children’s home back in the 1950’s. The test case failed, meaning that about 150 other claims against the Poor Sisters of Nazareth will also fail.

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