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.
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