The Muckamore Abbey Inquiry hears a statement from a mother who said her son was 17 when he was placed in a locked ward with sex offenders
By Michael FitzpatrickA teenager who was placed on a locked ward at Muckamore Abbey Hospital suffered such trauma that it was "as if his life had been stolen from him," his mother has said.
When the doctors and social workers suggested that Muckamore was the safest place for him, she and her husband trusted them.The locked ward, Movilla A, was "a massive shock and change", she said. "How does a family win in this situation and how is that fair, there was nothing we could do," she said.When they asked that he be given his own room, she said that staff cleared out an old broom cupboard and said he could have it but that his parents would have to furnish it.
"I pulled everything off the mattress to find that everything was absolutely soaking wet with urine and because it was so sodden it must have been like that for some time.HIs parents were also concerned that their son was put in seclusion - either in his room or in a "filthy and littered" yard.
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