SCOTLAND
STV
Two nuns accused of physically abusing pupils at a residential school in the 1970s have been cleared.
Anne Kenny and Agnes Reville were both acquitted after a trial at Paisley Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
They had been accused of assaulting eight girls at Dalbeath Approved School in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, during the 1970s.
The trial had previously heard from former pupils who claimed the nuns had attacked them and placed them in a “punishment room” at the facility.
Kenny, 79, was known as Mother Rosaria at the time she was working at the school while 77-year-old Reville was identified as Mother Martin.
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