A nun broke a young girl’s arm as she reacted to discovering the child was being sexually abused by a priest, an inquiry has heard.
A witness told how she had hoped she would be protected when the nun walked in on the assault in 1970, when she was eight, but was instead called a ‘whore’, grabbed and thrown towards a wall.
Theresa Tolmie-McGrane said she was then given a ‘real hiding’ by another nun and threatened with having her other arm broken if she told anybody what had happened.
Ms Tolmie-McGrane waived her right to anonymity at the Scottish child abuse inquiry to recount a catalogue of other abuses during her 11 years at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, which closed in the 1980s.
These included beatings, humiliations, freezing showers and children being force-fed inedible food, being told to eat their vomit and having their mouths rinsed out with soap. Full story...
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A witness told how she had hoped she would be protected when the nun walked in on the assault in 1970, when she was eight, but was instead called a ‘whore’, grabbed and thrown towards a wall.
Theresa Tolmie-McGrane said she was then given a ‘real hiding’ by another nun and threatened with having her other arm broken if she told anybody what had happened.
Ms Tolmie-McGrane waived her right to anonymity at the Scottish child abuse inquiry to recount a catalogue of other abuses during her 11 years at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, which closed in the 1980s.
These included beatings, humiliations, freezing showers and children being force-fed inedible food, being told to eat their vomit and having their mouths rinsed out with soap. Full story...
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