SCOTLAND
Paisley Daily Express
May 2 2013 by Lynn Jolly, Paisley Daily Express
A woman yesterday claimed 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, 58-year-old Barbara Young claimed that 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 Dalbeath Approved School in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, in the 1970s.
Prosecutor Douglas Hamilton asked Miss Young, who was sent to Dalbeath in 1971: “What did Mother Martin do to you?”
She replied: “I couldn’t say it was just her, there were others. I was pulled into a room. She just dragged me and her nails cut into me.”
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