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18 September 2017

Police reviewing child abuse claims involving orphanage

Police Scotland are reviewing old cases involving a notorious orphanage, raising the possibility of prosecutions nearly 30 years after it closed, STV News has learned.
Allegations that children were physically and sexually abused at Smyllum Park, Lanark, first emerged in the 1990s, but it's thought no-one has ever been convicted of committing an offence against any of the thousands of children who lived within its walls.

https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1397847-police-scotland-reviewing-old-cases-involving-orphanage/