An elderly nun accused of abusing children at an orphanage more than 50 years ago has said she destroyed her own written records of that time. Giving evidence under the pseudonym “Sister Josephine”, the 85-year-old nun said she had kept diaries when she worked at Smyllum Park in Lanarkshire between 1967 and 1981, but didn’t keep them. The nun, who gave evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry from behind a screen to protect her anonymity, denied ever hitting a child and rebutted allegations boys were humiliated for bed-wetting and made to line up to have their underpants inspected for signs of being soiled.
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