AN ELDERLY nun has denied children were beaten, force-fed and humiliated at a controversial care institution. The 92-year-old woman told Scotland's Child Abuse Inquiry she had not witnessed any cruelty or struck any youngsters herself during her time at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark.
She told the inquiry she was based there from 1957 to 1964 and insisted it was a "happy place", not one where physical and emotional abuse took place. The witness said it came as a "shock" to her to hear allegations emerge about the home and said she "wouldn't dream" of abusing children in her care.
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