The Girl Nobody Wants: A Shocking True Story of Child Abuse in Ireland by Lily O'Brien

Author:Lily O'Brien [O'Brien, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Ethnic & National, Irish, Memoirs, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Child Abuse, Dysfunctional Relationships
ISBN: 1780880332
Amazon: B005Q2MWVM
Published: 2011-09-26T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Time to Leave

I was getting older now, and the nuns began to give me pocket money each week, so I could buy myself sweets from the shops on the way home from school. But they also had a little black note book that they kept the names in of all the naughty children, and my name was always in the book. The trouble was that the nuns always used the book against me and they used it against me to keep me from having my pocket money each week. If I had been bad during the week, then my name went into the book and I never got my pocket money. I got so used to them waving the black book in my face and telling me that I was not getting any pocket money again, that in the end I told the nuns to stick the book up their ass, and I never saw the book or any pocket money again.

It was only five pence a week anyway, plus I had my own way of getting money. As at the back of St Joseph’s was a field where every weekend men played football, and they would use one of the rooms in the convent as a changing room, leaving all their clothes lying around the room as they played football. Then me and some other kids would sneak into the room and go through their pockets, looking for money. And we got more money in a month than we would ever have gotten from the nuns in a whole year. We would all get a couple of pounds each, then we would sneak off to the shops and buy ice cream, sweets and even fags and matches. It was great; but after a few months, the nuns found out about us stealing the money and they locked the changing room door and that was the end of that.

One morning, I came down from my bedroom and I told the staff that I had wet the bed again and she told me not to worry, and that she would change the bed sheets later in the day. So I sat down, ate my breakfast and then I went off to school, but she never changed my sheets, she just pulled the covers back into place and then made the bed, leaving it wet. Then in the evening, when I got back from school, all the staff in the house were rushing around and cleaning the house, putting clean towels, soap and shampoo in the bathrooms and even fresh food into the kitchen cupboards.

Then the staff gathered us all together in the dining room and they told us all to be good, because some people from the health service were coming to see us and they were going to check over the house. The staff cleaned us all up and, just as they had finished putting clean clothes on us, two men walked into the house and the two men introduced themselves as health inspectors,.

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