SCOTLAND
Paisley Daily Express
May 1 2013 by Lynn Jolly, Paisley Daily Express
A nun accused of physically abusing girls at an approved school more than 40 years ago admitted to police that there was a punishment room on the premises, a court was told yesterday.
But 79-year-old Anne Kenny, known as Mother Rosaria, claimed it was only used for “cooling off” badly-misbehaved pupils.
And she said that none of the girls had been hit.
Kenny and 77-year-old Agnes Reville, known as Mother Martin, deny assaulting eight girls at Dalbeath Approved School in Bishopton, in the early 1970s.
Four former pupils have claimed in evidence that they were physically abused during their time at the school.
Yesterday at Paisley Sheriff Court, DC Moira Fyfe told the jury that she travelled down to Manchester on January 27, 2009, with DC Lesley McAuley, to interview Kenny.
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