SCOTLAND
Herald Scotlant
Thursday 2 May 2013
A WOMAN told a jury she was dragged into a detention room at an approved school run by nuns and left without food or drink for two days.
Barbara Young, 58, claimed at Paisley Sheriff Court that one of the nuns who put her in the locked room was known as Mother Martin.
Ms 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.
Ms Young also claimed she was forcibly given some kind of drug by a nun and Mother Martin assisted.
Under cross-examination by Robert Anthony, QC, defending Mother Martin, the jury heard Ms Young was sent to Dalbeth for shoplifting and has theft convictions.
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