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31 January 2018

Inquiry hears of victims' harrowing accounts of historic abuse at Ruthgerglen care home

Children were beaten with brushes, sexually abused and forced to fight each other at a Rutherglen home, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was told. Two witnesses have so far told of the abuse they suffered at the hands of the Daughters of Charity at Bellevue House during the second phase of the historical inquiry.
One alleged victim, who went on to become a nun herself, said she was frequently beaten and routinely shamed for being “clever”.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/inquiry-hears-victims-harrowing-accounts-11901155