Punishment for bedwetting

Madam, - Child bed-wetting (nocturnal enuresis) is one of the most complex difficult disorders in the Western world affecting 30 per cent of the population at age four, dropping to about 5 per cent by age 12. Causes are multiple and treatment is complicated and difficult.

The present superior of the Irish Sisters of Charity, Una O'Neill, has told the Commission on Child Abuse that children with this condition were slapped by the nuns of her order in the 1950s and 1960s at St Patrick's Industrial School in Kilkenny (The Irish Times, August 8th). This insensitivity and cruelty was a disgrace. Who let those nuns into the order?

Are any superiors or culprits still alive, so that those who suffered such indignity can seek redress and justice?

Bishop Eamonn Casey's sins were minor by comparison. - Yours, etc.,

Letter-Irish Times