An elderly nun has denied that children were beaten, force-fed and humiliated at a controversial orphanage. The 92-year-old woman told Scotland’s Child Abuse Inquiry that she hadn’t witnessed any cruelty or struck any youngsters herself while she was at Smyllum Park care facility in Lanark.
She told the inquiry she was based there from 1957 until 1964, and insisted that it was a ‘happy place’ – not one where children were physically and emotionally abused. The retired sister, who cannot be identified, said it was a ‘shock’ to hear allegations emerge about the home, and said she ‘wouldn’t dream’ of abusing children in her care.
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/16/elderly-nun-92-denies-beating-force-feeding-children-orphanage-7234599/
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/16/elderly-nun-92-denies-beating-force-feeding-children-orphanage-7234599/
