State abandoned me, says house of horrors survivor

A SURVIVOR of the house of horrors in which tragic schoolgirl Kelly Fitzgerald was abused says she has been abandoned by the State since her sister died.

Geraldine Fitzgerald, who endured much of the same abuse that made Kelly’s life a living hell, says she has been left ill, on welfare and in debt and cannot get answers as to why no prosecution was ever taken against anyone for the suffering inflicted on her.

The girls’ parents, Des and Sue Fitzgerald, were both sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to the neglect of Kelly who died in 1993 at the age of 15. While an inquest found she died of septicaemia and her death was therefore due to natural causes, she was also severely malnourished and showed many signs of abuse.