SCOTLAND
BBC News
Police have received complaints from more than 300 people against the Sisters of Nazareth Catholic order which ran children’s homes in Scotland until the 1980s.
The Scottish child abuse inquiry has begun hearing evidence in connection with the homes they ran in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayrshire.
Police received 308 complaints against the Sisters of Nazareth.
They related to their child care homes between 1934 and 1984.
The complaints are about 194 people associated with institutions run by the Sisters of Nazareth.
‘Never loved’
The first witness to give evidence during the latest phase of the inquiry told how nuns at Nazareth House in Aberdeen would nip her skin, beat the children and make them play in the playground with no shoes on.
“We were never loved, ever, by any of them,” she said.
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