A religious order failed to act on allegations of child abuse 20 years ago when legal action came to nothing, an inquiry has heard.
Sister Ellen Flynn, head of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in the UK, told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry the congregation had “failed to engage” with the complaints about Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanarkshire when they first emerged in 1998.
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