Nuns caught beating sick kids

16th October 2009

Nuns have been captured on video beating sick children in a village in northern Poland.


The kids, who suffer from Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and autism, were seen being hit by a passer-by, who took the footage on his mobile.

“A nun took a shoe off him and beat him round the head. He started crying and she started hitting him in the face,” says witness Piotr Banaszek.

But the director of the home run by the Francisian Sisters Assembly, defended the behaviour saying “The sisters were acting in self-defence.” ...