A nun has told an inquiry she “slapped” children in her care at an orphanage but said she is “not aware” of beating a boy unconscious. The 73-year-old was giving
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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
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Allegations of historic child abuse at an orphanage have been described as “absolute rubbish” by two former residents. One witness to the Scottish Child Abuse inquiry said he had been
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A former house master at a top private school has been jailed for four years for sexually abusing four of his pupils. Peter Webb (pictured) would sneak into dormitories to
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A young boy at an orphanage in the 1960s did not die as a result of an attack by a nun, an inquiry has been told. The Scottish Child Abuse
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A young boy was beaten “black and blue”, as though he had been in a boxing match, after catching two nuns in an embrace, an inquiry has heard. A man
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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
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A nun “killed” a four-year-old boy at an orphanage, a child abuse inquiry has heard. A witness, who cannot be named, said he heard the boy being beaten then never
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A former altar boy has waived his anonymity to tell a child abuse inquiry of beatings and sexual abuse at an orphanage. William Connelly broke down in tears as he
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The detective leading one of the country’s biggest inquiries into historical sexual and physical abuse was “very confident” more former staff members of a detention centre will be prosecuted for
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