LANARK (SCOTLAND)
The Scottish Daily Mail

December 2, 2017

By Graham Grant

– Child abuse inquiry heard harrowing testimony from Smyllum Park survivors
– The orphanage in Lanark, Scotland, was run by ‘psychopathic nuns’, inquiry told
– Some 400 children from the Smyllum believed to be buried in unmarked grave

A notorious orphanage ‘covered up’ the deaths of children in its care including a boy who was savagely beaten by a nun, an inquiry heard yesterday.

One former resident of Smyllum Park in Lanark said six-year-old Sammy Carr died days after a nun launched a frenzied attack on him, repeatedly kicking him in the head.

In posthumous evidence, another ex-resident said 13-year-old Francis McColl died after a member of staff hit him on the head with a golf club.

Deaths were ‘covered up’ at the institution, run by ‘psychopathic’ nuns who meted out physical…