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.
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