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4 August 2016

Child used as lookout while nun had sex Alleged cruelty victim tells trial of one Sister's affair with a workman

ONE of the alleged victims of abuse by a nun at a children's home run by the Catholic Church yesterday told a court that another nun had sex with a workman as one of the youngsters kept watch.
Mrs Helen Cusiter, 43, made the allegation during cross-examination at the Aberdeen Sheriff Court trial of 58-year-old Marie Docherty - Sister Alphonso - who denies 23 charges of abusing young girls aged from two to 17, by cruelly and unnaturally treating them at Nazareth House homes in Aberdeen and Midlothian between 1965 and 1980. The charges include forcing girls to kiss dead nuns, making one girl spend the night in a chapel with the body of a nun, punching, slapping, kicking, and hitting girls, and placing them in a state of fear and alarm.

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