'On this particular morning, the Brother called me up. ‘Get up here’ he says, and the first thing I got was a couple of clatters around the head, my face, I think maybe six or 12 slaps I got off him with a leather strap'
Survivors of horrific physical abuse in schools spoke out in a shocking documentary aired on RTÉ television on Wednesday night.
Questions have also been raised about how abuse was dealt with in the past. The documentary unveiled how just 108 allegations of physical abuse by teachers against pupils were recorded by the Department of Education between 1962 and 1982. READ MORE: Inquest hears young woman found dead in bedroom by mother after taking drugs on night out in Dublin
In the film, survivor Peter Kane from Navan, Co Meath, said: “Every day, there was an element of fear going in. He could kick off for the simplest of reasons. On this particular morning, the Brother called me up. ‘Get up here’ he says, and the first thing I got was a couple of clatters around the head, my face, I think maybe six or 12 slaps I got off him with a leather strap.
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