Clergy abuse survivor says the Catholic church must come clean
62-year old Kate Walmsley has said she could not care less about the Pope's visit to Ireland this weekend
A victim of historical clergy abuse is telling Clyde news the Catholic church must come clean and stop covering up. Kate Walmsley, who's originally from Glasgow, says the authorities lied through their teeth to protect the priest who raped her between the ages of 8 and 12.
Pope Francis is due to meet with survivors tomorrow after he apologised and condemned the attacks and cover-ups in a letter to 1.2 billion Catholics on Monday.
A priest made Kate, now 62 remove her underwear and assaulted her while she was a child, she said.
When I was about 12 he was having sex with me.
I ended up with bulimia as well. We were told to vomit up our mortal sin; the nun would say we had a big black spot on our soul.
I ended up being very ill.''
She said Pope Francis was just an ordinary man to her.
I could not care less about the Pope. (As a child) I heard someone saying he was the head of the Catholic Church but he was not really anybody to me.
A lot of people think that he is a great man, he is just an ordinary man to me.'
In 1964, aged seven, she was taken to a residential home in Londonderry run by the Sisters of Nazareth nuns.
In 2014 she revealed allegations of physical violence and sex abuse at the home when she appeared before a public inquiry.
The Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry led by retired Northern Ireland High Court judge Sir Anthony Hart recommended compensation be paid to victims.
His instructions are yet to be acted on following the collapse of political powersharing at Stormont.
Ms Walmsley recalled the alleged abuse.
Ms Walmsley, who now lives in Belfast said later in life she had eight pregnancies and two live births.
She added: I knew it was to do with everything, I have just got everything wrong with me.''