Woman 'Starved in Room by Nuns for Days'

Evening Times
May 2, 2013

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/woman-starved-in-room-by-nuns-for-days-123078n.20969447

A WOMAN has told a jury she was dragged into a detention room at an approved school run by nuns and left there without food or drink for two days.

At Paisley Sheriff Court, Barbara Young, 58, claimed one of the nuns who put her in the locked room was Mother Martin.

Miss Young was giving evidence at the trial of Anne Kenny, 79, known as Mother Rosaria, and Agnes Reville, 77, known as Mother Martin, who deny assaulting girls at Dalbeth approved school in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, in the 1970s.

Prosecutor Douglas Hamilton asked Miss Young, who was sent to Dalbeth in 1971: "What did Mother Martin do to you," and she replied: "There were others.

"I was pulled into a room. She just dragged me and her nails cut into me."

Miss Young told the jury she was put into the detention room three or four times for trying to run away.

She was asked how long she was in the locked room for and said: "A couple of days." Mr Hamilton asked: "Were you given food?" and she replied: "No."

Miss Young claimed she was forcibly given some kind of drug by a nun with the help of Mother Martin.

The trial before Sheriff Susan Sinclair continues.