Woman 'was sexually assaulted by hooded figure called The Devil helped by cult of satanic nuns then buried alive overnight' at orphanage.

A woman yesterday told how she was subjected to a Satanic sex ritual by nuns at a notorious orphanage. She described the sisters who ran it as a sadistic ‘cult’ which presided over bizarre rituals. In extraordinary evidence at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), she told how she was sexually assaulted in a candlelit chapel in the grounds of the Smyllum Park home run by the nuns. The man she said was responsible was wearing a hood – and the sisters told her he was ‘the Devil’. Afterwards, she said she was buried alive overnight at the orphanage in Lanark, then forced to bathe in what she was told was blood.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5155155/Woman-sexually-assaulted-hooded-figure-called-Devil.html

Never again: can the royal commission help make our children safe?

In the Parramatta Girls Home, a state-controlled institution for neglected girls in New South Wales, children were stripped of their identity and silenced. Their heads were shorn, they were assigned derogatory names, and personal items including sanitary napkins were confiscated. Little girls were deprived of food, forced into harsh labour, and were physically abused, sexually assaulted and raped.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/09/never-again-can-the-royal-commission-help-make-our-children-safe

CULTURE OF EVIL' Boy was left so hungry at Smyllum Park orphanage he was ‘forced to eat GRASS’

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry witness - who was at the orphanage in the 1960s - has told the probe that there was a 'culture of evil among religious orders' at that time. A YOUNG boy was left so hungry at a orphanage run by Catholic nuns that he was forced to eat GRASS, it is claimed. The man revealed to Scotland’s Child Abuse Inquiry that he was “never happy” during his time at Smyllum and was frightened of almost all the nuns in charge.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1947130/boy-hungry-eat-grass-smyllum-park-orphanage/

Family of last child to die at notorious Smyllum Park orphanage demand answers as inquiry hears of horrific abuse

THE family of the last child to die while in care at Smyllum Park orphanage have broken their silence to demand answers about her death. Patricia Meenan was hit by a car after running away from the children’s home in 1969. Her family had been told this was the first time Patricia had tried to flee – but it has now emerged the 12-year-old had attempted to run away a number of times. The Scottish Child Abuse inquiry has, in recent weeks, heard horrendous evidence accusing nuns, visiting priests and staff of inflicting physical, mental and sexual abuse at the orphanage, near Lanark.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/the-nuns-told-us-patricia-had-never-run-away-before-but-that-was-a-lie-given-what-we-know-now-about-the-terrible-things-going-on-in-that-place-we-dread-to-think-what-she-was-so-terrified-of-dread/

Notice of Credible Allegation of Abuse Dating to 1950s

he diocese recently received an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by Father Sylvester Hoppe dating to 1953 to 1956. The priest, who died in 2002, was chaplain to St. Mary’s Orphanage in St. Joseph at the time. Consistent with diocesan policy, the allegation was reported to the civil authorities and investigated. It was found credible by the independent ombudsman, Independent Review Board and Bishop Johnston.

http://catholickey.org/2017/12/11/notice-of-credible-allegation-of-abuse-dating-to-1950s/

Catholic orphanage in Lanark 'force fed' children

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has been told by a former resident that he was force-fed at a Catholic orphanage. The witness said that, even as an adult, he has to leave the room when his family eat certain meals. As a boy of about eight years old, he moved to Smyllum Park in Lanark in 1974. The inquiry in Edinburgh heard from the witness that punishments in the orphanage included being beaten with "Jesus slippers".

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42311288

Grappling with Rome: David Marr's lessons from the royal commission

When I grew up on the sheltered Protestant north shore of Sydney one of the givens about the Catholic church was that when push came to shove it would obey Rome rather than the law. This was a time when the election of a Catholic president of the United States was widely considered impossible or at the least dangerous. Where would JFK’s loyalties lie in a crisis, to Washington or Rome?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/13/grappling-with-rome-david-marrs-lessons-from-the-royal-commission

Sammy Carr ‘was not killed by beating from nuns’ at Smyllum Park orphanage

A young boy at a Catholic orphanage did not die because of an attack by a nun, a forensic pathologist has told an inquiry. Sammy Carr succumbed to a brain haemorrhage, aged six, after an E.coli infection, which he could have caught by playing with a dead rat, Anthony Busuttil said. The haemorrhage “was not traumatic in origin”, he added

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sammy-carr-was-not-killed-by-beating-from-nuns-at-smyllum-park-orphanage-p3zcb3fnf

Legal battles continue for St. Anne’s residential school survivors

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Anna Betty Achneepineskum is appalled by the Government of Canada’s legal tactics that are revictimizing survivors of the notorious St. Anne’s Indian Residential School and denying them justice. “The federal government’s position against St. Anne’s Survivors is a shameful injustice that is at odds with the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and this government’s commitment to reconciliation,” said Achneepineskum, who is attending Wednesday’s hearing in the Ontario Superior Court.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/legal-battles-continue-for-st-annes-residential-school-survivors-790090

Australia 'I was forced to hold on to an electric fence'

Daryl was put into a children’s home when he was four years old. He would later be abused by a priest. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse delivers its final report on 15 December. More than 8,000 survivors took part in private sessions over the past five years. SBS News speaks to some of them. WARNING: Some readers may find this content distressing.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/i-was-forced-to-hold-on-to-an-electric-fence

Child Abuse Inquiry: Child died from E.coli rather than nun attack

A child who died after spending time at a notorious orphanage succumbed to the effects of an E.coli infection not injuries inflicted by a nun, an inquiry has heard. Sammy Carr was six years old when he died of a brain haemorrhage in 1964 after being taken to hospital from Smyllum Park in Lanark. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard from Professor Anthony Busuttil, a regius professor of forensic medicine at Edinburgh University, who said there was “no doubt” the haemorrhage had not been caused by a head trauma.

https://www.scotsman.com/regions/glasgow-strathclyde/child-abuse-inquiry-child-died-from-e-coli-rather-than-nun-attack-1-4637255

Nuns hit girl for asking her sister if she could leave orphanage, inquiry told

A former resident of a Catholic orphanage has told an inquiry how she was beaten by nuns for asking her sister to take her out of the home. June Smith, who waived her right to anonymity, moved in to Smyllum Park in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, in 1969 when she was about three or four. She told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry in Edinburgh that residents would be hit with a belt or brush by nuns and staff would discuss who they were going to "pick on" each day.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15714947.Child_abuse_inquiry_hears_how_nuns_hit_girl_for_asking_her_sister_if_she_could_leave_orphanage/

Mother and child homes inquiry to take another year

The Irish government has extended the deadline for the Commission of Investigation into 14 Mother and Baby Homes by a year, to February 2019. In its third interim report the commission said that it is faced with a huge task in collating and analysing a vast range of material. It said it is also speaking to former residents of the homes to hear their personal experiences and this is hugely time consuming. The commission said it has met 346 former residents across the country and here in the UK. A further 200 people have applied to meet with the committee.

http://www.theirishworld.com/mother-child-homes-inquiry-take-another-year/

Special award for women and children kept in religious-run, state-funded institutions

The National Women's Council of Ireland will today present a special award to honour women and children who were kept in religious-run, state-funded institutions.
It is one of two awards being announced at the council's AGM in Dublin.
NWCI director Orla O'Connor said women from all walks of life will come together to discuss what needs to happen to make the Ireland of the future a more equal society.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/special-award-for-women-and-children-kept-in-religious-run-state-funded-institutions-792764.html

Inquiry told girl 'abused by priest' at Smyllum Park had arm broken by nun

read it and weep... my heart goes out for the other men and women... who were put though hell like us innocent children worldwide... the same things happened to us all... what was it all about??... and there is one thing that I do know now... what they hated about us girls and boys... just take a look at our innocence... that is what they could not stand... you see the nuns and priest were the devil incarnated...and they used him on us as much as they could... while they thrashed us within an inch of our lives... while calling us the devil's daughters and sons... they used him well...
See this... just like they did to us... when does it STOP??... Ann

These included beatings, humiliations, freezing showers and children being force-fed inedible food, being told to eat their vomit and having their mouths rinsed out with soap.

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An eight-year-old girl had her arm broken by a nun after she discovered the child was being sexually abused by a priest, an inquiry has heard.

Theresa Tolmie-McGrane told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry she hoped the nun would protect her after walking in on the assault at Smyllum Park orphanage in 1970. But she said she was instead verbally abused and thrown at a wall. She said she then beaten and threatened with having her other arm broken

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42240995 

Boy beaten after catching nuns in an embrace, Scottish child abuse inquiry told

A young boy was beaten "black and blue", as though he had been in a boxing match, after catching two nuns in an embrace, an inquiry has heard.
A man said he was six or seven when one of the nuns went "mental" and "ballistic" as she lashed out at him in a boiler-room at a care institution in the 1960s. He told Scotland’s child abuse inquiry that the "vicious" assault left him with bruises for weeks and with blood coming out of his ear and nose.

http://www.eveningecho.ie/oneaday/Boy-beaten-after-catching-nuns-in-an-embrace-Scottish-child-abuse-inquiry-told-92824272-bb4d-4372-bb7c-0931b2a0da4a-ds 

Kristine Ward, 'moral advocate for survivors' of abuse, remembered

A memorial Mass Dec. 9 in Dayton, Ohio, will remember Kristine Ward, a lay Catholic compelled by the Boston Globe's 2002 clergy sex abuse investigations to become a prominent advocate for survivors.
Ward died Nov. 9 after a years-long battle with cancer. The Mass will take place at Queen of Martyrs Church, in Dayton, followed by a celebration of life reception.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/kristine-ward-moral-advocate-survivors-abuse-remembered 

'She called me a whore, she took my left arm and yanked me out of his lap and flung me across to the wall,

A nun broke a young girl's arm as she reacted to discovering the child was being sexually abused by a priest, an inquiry has heard.

Theresa Tolmie-McGrane told how she had hoped she would be protected when the nun walked in on the assault in 1970, when she was eight, but was instead called a "whore", grabbed and thrown towards a wall.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/girl-catholic-priest-sexual-abuse-scottish-smyllum-park-orphanage-nun-break-arm-1970s-theresa-tolmie-a8095241.html 

Girl aged eight 'was sexually abused by priest then had her arm broken by nun who walked in on her as was happening'

A girl of eight was sexually abused by a priest – then had her arm broken by a nun who found out about it, an inquiry heard yesterday.

Dr Theresa Tolmie-McGrane, now 55, said she was later forced to take Communion from the priest who abused her – who told her she was ‘a soldier of God’.

When she alerted other priests to the abuse, she was told to pray for those responsible. A nun said: ‘What goes on here, stays here.’

She was a resident of the Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, which is now under scrutiny by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5150665/Scottish-girl-aged-eight-sexually-abused-priest.html

Smyllum Park nuns gave child 'electric shock treatment'

A woman who lived in a Lanark orphanage from the age of four has told an inquiry she was given electric shock treatment.
The woman, who was giving evidence anonymously, said she was sent to Smyllum Park in 1965.
She told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry she was abused by nuns there.

http://www.briefreport.co.uk/news/smyllum-park-nuns-gave-child-electric-shock-treatment-5426882.html 

NUNS forced a girl to take part in a ‘satanic’ sex ritual at an orphanage, the child abuse inquiry heard yesterday

The traumatised former orphanage resident known only as ‘Janie’ told a child abuse inquiry a man referred to as the 'devil' assaulted her while she lay on a slab surrounded by candles.
She said before the alleged attack, she and other girls were taken from their dorms at night to a nearby field where Catholic sisters from the “cult-like” home danced in a circle around a tree. The inquiry heard they were later taken to the back of a candlelit chapel and went downstairs.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1938839/girl-forced-into-satanic-sex-ritual-where-devil-buried-her-alive-at-smyllum/

Orphanage nuns 'broke 8-year-old's arm and told her to lie about priest's sexual assault'

Nuns broke the arm of an eight-year-old girl and threatened to break the other one after they found the child being sexually abused by a priest, an inquiry has heard.
The incident was one of a number that occurred in 1970 at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, South Lanarkshire. The orphanage, which closed in the 1980s, was run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/orphanage-nuns-broke-8-year-olds-arm-told-her-lie-about-priests-sexual-assault-1650357 

Perceptions of Institutional Abuse Survey

This study will examine your perceptions of institutional abuse and the impact of this abuse on adult survivors.
This survey forms part of a research project awarded by the European Commission as part of the Joint Justice & Daphne call for actions grants supporting national or transnational projects to enhance the rights of victims of crime/victims of violence (SACSA - Support to Adult Survivors of Child Abuse in institutional settings - JUST/2015/SPOB/AG/VICT).

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5Mk3YYEzybMV1pT1QIJyEcOFQj3eQ9KShCAaoQTOcEjujCg/viewform 

The 15,000 Scots children shipped to Canada

A search is underway for the families of up to 15,000 vulnerable children from Scotland’s children’s homes who were shipped to Canada in a programme of forced emigration and cheap labour that lasted almost 100 years.
Researchers in Canada are supporting families to secure the records of those transported by charities, including Quarriers and Barnardo’s, as part of the British Home Children programme that lasted from 1863 until the 1970s.

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/the-15-000-scots-children-shipped-to-canada-1-4616584 

Payouts considered for child sex abuse victims in care.

Families of dead child abuse victims may be able to apply for compensation under a redress scheme being considered by the Scottish Government. A consultation has begun on the scheme which, if introduced, would provide financial redress to those who 
suffered abuse while in care.
Respondents are being asked whether the families of deceased victims should be able to apply for money and whether so-called interim payments should be made to those in old age.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/payouts-considered-for-child-sex-abuse-victims-in-care-1-4550892

Child Abuse Inquiry: Boy, 6, died ten days after a nun beat him

A six-year-old boy died 10 days after he was beaten by a nun at an orphanage, a child abuse inquiry has heard.   A witness, who cannot be named, told the inquiry his friend was kicked on the body and head by the Catholic sister. He was giving evidence at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry which began the second phase of its hearings in Edinburgh on Tuesday. It is hearing evidence about institutions run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/child-abuse-inquiry-boy-6-died-ten-days-after-a-nun-beat-him-1-4625447 

One story: Magdalene Laundries

Ombudsman Peter Tyndall has criticised the Department of Justice for what he described as its flawed administration of the scheme designed to compensate women who were admitted to or worked in institutions and Magdalene laundries.
The differences between the department and the Ombudsman centre on why some women were excluded from a compensation scheme. RTÉ's Cian McCormack spoke to one woman whose case was examined by the Ombudsman.

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2017/1123/922214-magdalene-laundries-one-story/ 

Opportunity Lost An investigation by the Ombudsman into the administration of the Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme

The incarceration of women in the Magdalen laundries and the forced labour to which they were subjected is one of the sorriest episodes in our history. It was exacerbated by the failure of Irish society to act over many years to highlight and tackle the injustice suffered by these women. The heartfelt apology of former Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the creation of a restorative justice scheme were intended to reflect the shame of the nation and offer some acknowledgement and recompense to the women.
This report looks at the administration of that restorative justice scheme. When I first began my investigation, my focus was primarily on the way in which the eligibility criteria for the Scheme were interpreted. As a result of the Department’s narrow interpretation some women who lived in the convents and worked in the laundries were excluded from admission to the Scheme. I should stress that I am not seeking to add new institutions to the Scheme. However, I have seen a significant amount of evidence which shows that some of the Magdalen laundries were inextricably linked with other units attached to the laundries or located on the same grounds and should be considered to be one and the same institution.

http://www.ombudsman.ie/en/Publications/Investigation-Reports/government-departments-other-public-bodies/Magdalen-Report/Magdalen-Scheme.pdf 

Ombudsman investigation finds that women wrongly excluded from Magdalen scheme

An investigation by Ombudsman Peter Tyndall has found that some women who worked in the Magdalen laundries have been wrongly refused access to the Magdalen Restorative Justice scheme. In his report ‘Opportunity Lost’, issued today, the Ombudsman also criticises other aspects of the Department of Justice and Equality’s administration of the scheme.

The investigation follows a number of complaints to the Ombudsman from women who had lived in convents and worked in the laundries. The Department of Justice & Equality refused their applications as, it said, the women were not in one of the 12 institutions covered by the scheme

http://www.ombudsman.ie/en/News/Media-Releases/2017-Media-Releases/Ombudsman-finds-women-wrongly-excluded-Magdalen-scheme-.html 

Objections by Department of Justice to Magdalen redress investigation 'disingenuous' - Ombudsman

THE STATE OMBUDSMAN has dismissed objections made by the Department of Justice to an investigation into 27 complaints made by women who worked in Magdalen Laundries regarding the Magdalene Restorative Justice scheme.
Many of those women had their applications for redress denied by the Department as they were not officially recorded as having been resident in the 12 institutions covered by the scheme.

http://www.thejournal.ie/ombudsman-magdalene-laundries-3712032-Nov2017/ 

Child rape victims were in Bessborough maternity registers show

Children as young as 12, pregnant as a result of rape, were in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home into the 1980s.  Details from maternity registers, released under freedom of information, reveal between 1954 and 1987, young girls were pregnant in the institution.
The youngest child in the registers dates from 1968. The girl is listed as being just 12 and had been transferred from Bessborough to St Finbarr’s Hospital in Cork, where her child had been stillborn in January 1968, as a result of “ante-partum haemorrhage”.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/child-rape-victims-were-in-bessborough-maternity-registers-show-369151.html 

Spain: The Stolen Children | European Journal

Tens of thousands of children are believed to have been taken away from their mothers during Franco's regime and placed with adoptive parents. Now they're demanding investigations.In some cases, children with ear infections admitted to hospital allegedly died there. But did they? A growing movement in Spain claims that thousands of babies were trafficked during General Franco's dictatorship with the help of crooked doctors and lawyers - but producing evidence is far from straightforward. Hundreds of criminal complaints have now been registered in the courts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dy7SOwMeUw&feature=share 

After waiting years to be heard, the children of Smyllum tell their heartbreaking stories

But in this nondescript office block, as commuters rushed by outside, they would speak at last.
And, finally, after all those years, these adults, who were once children in Scotland’s care homes, would tell their stories. Stories of neglect, of cruelty, of abuse and of murder.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry started its second phase in Edinburgh last week as judge Lady Smith, pictured, turned her attention to Smyllum Park children’s home in Lanarkshire, the orphanage where, as we revealed in September, up to 400 children are buried in an unmarked grave.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/we-heard-him-being-beaten-by-the-nuns-but-when-he-didnt-show-up-the-next-day-we-all-cheered-we-thought-he-had-a-new-family/ 

'Four-year-old boy died after being beaten by nun at orphanage' as witness recalls hearing "slap slap slap"

A four-year-old boy died after he was beaten by a nun at an orphanage, a child abuse inquiry was told yesterday, as a witness described hearing "slap, slap, slap".
A witness said they assumed the child had been taken by a family at first, but later found out the tragic news that he had died.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/four-year-old-boy-died-11612432 

Council calls for mother and baby home probe

Members of Derry City and Strabane District Council have called for a human rights-compliant public inquiry into alleged abuses at former mother and baby homes in the North and the rest of the country. Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue raised the issue by tabling a motion calling for the a probe into allegations of "forced labour, arbitrary detention, ill treatment and the illegal adoption of babies" at homes in the North.

https://www.derryjournal.com/news/derry-city-and-strabane-district-council-calls-for-mother-and-baby-home-probe-1-8261007 

Scientists find potential neurobiological marker to help recognize PTSD patients

Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Amsterdam hope to have found a new neurobiological marker to help recognize patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) - a test that detects electrical activity in a person's brain via electrodes attached to their scalp - researchers studied the brain activity of a group of thirteen patients with PTSD.  The group was then compared to a group who had suffered a similar trauma but had not gone on to develop PDST.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20171130/Scientists-find-potential-neurobiological-marker-to-help-recognize-PTSD-patients.aspx 

Young boy sexually abused in bathroom of Lanark orphanage, inquiry hears

A former resident of a Catholic-run orphanage has told an inquiry how he was sexually abused in a bathroom.
The witness, who cannot be named, was under 10 years old when the incident was said to have happened at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, South Lanarkshire.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/News/15694111.Young_boy_sexually_abused_in_bathroom_of_Lanark_orphanage__inquiry_hears/ 

INQUIRY Ex-altar boy breaks down in tears as he tells Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry of experiences at Smyllum Park

AN ex-altar boy broke down in tears as he told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry of his experiences at Smyllum Park in Lanark. William Connelly waived his anonymity to tell of beatings and sexual abuse.
The 69-year-old, who stayed at the children’s home from 1958, spoke of almost daily beatings by nuns and others. He also claimed a priest would perform a sex act on himself when hearing confession.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1910763/smyllum-park-altar-boy-scottish-child-abuse-inquiry/ 

Abuse inquiry: Orphanage boy 'molested in toilet cubicle'

A former resident of a Catholic orphanage has told how he was dragged into a toilet cubicle and sexually abused. The boy was under the age of 10 when the male staff member subjected him to the ordeal.
The man, now in his 60s, has told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry that life at Smyllum Park Orphanage in Lanark was "like a concentration camp". The witness lived at Smyllum Park in the 1950s.

 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42183894#

'Boy died after being beaten by nun' at orphanage linked to mass grave

A four-year-old boy died after he was beaten by a nun at an orphanage, a child abuse inquiry was told yesterday.
A witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he heard the boy being punished – and then never saw him again. He only recently found out in a newspaper report that the boy had died “or was killed”.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/crime/boy-died-after-being-beaten-11609442 

Nun 'killed' young boy and another was seen 'stabbing' baby in face, child abuse inquiry hears

A nun "killed" a young boy at an orphanage, a child abuse inquiry in Scotland has heard. A witness, who cannot be named, said he heard the boy being beaten and then never saw him again.
He recently found out in a newspaper report the boy, who was aged under 10, had died. The witness also said he was physically and sexually abused while in care and believed he had killed his mother after being told so by a nun, not finding out this was untrue until his mid-20s.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/nun-killed-young-boy-and-another-was-seen-stabbing-baby-in-face-child-abuse-inquiry-hears-816337.html

Boy, 6, died after nun kicked him in head in care home, inquiry hears

A former Catholic care home resident has alleged a six-year-old boy died after a nun kicked him repeatedly in the head during years of sexual and physical abuse at the home.
David, a pseudonym for the former resident, told an official inquiry into historical sexual abuse in Scotland that nuns and staff oversaw a regime of terror at Smyllum House, a children’s home in Lanark run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/28/boy-6-died-after-nun-kicked-him-in-head-care-home-inquiry-hears 

Historic child abuse review could lead to new charges

Prosecutors are reviewing decades-old child abuse cases in a move that could lead to new charges being brought. The Crown Office said a team had been set up to re-examine decisions made in the past about cases involving the abuse of children in care. The details emerged as Scotland’s abuse inquiry heard allegations children died from injuries sustained during time spent at a notorious orphanage.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/historic-child-abuse-review-could-lead-to-new-charges-1-4625742 

Child abuse inquiry hears two boys were beaten to death at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark

TWO boys were beaten to death at an orphanage, one at the hands of a nun and the other by a caretaker wielding a golf club, Scotland’s child abuse inquiry has heard.
The allegations were made as the inquiry heard from four witnesses about their experiences while living in Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, which was run by the Catholic Order the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15689428.Inquiry_hears_boys_were_beaten_to_death_at_orphanage/ 

Catholic nuns 'sexually abused boy and beat friend, 6, to death for playing with match'

A six-year-old boy died 10 days after he was beaten by a nun at an orphanage, a child abuse inquiry has heard. A witness, who cannot be named, told the inquiry his friend was kicked on the body and head by the Catholic sister.
He was giving evidence at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry which began a new phase of hearings in Edinburgh on Tuesday.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/catholic-nuns-sexually-abused-boy-11605224