SCOTLAND
BBC News
A nun told a boy he was “garbage” and was being sent to Australia from Scotland because “your family doesn’t want you, your country doesn’t want you”, an inquiry has heard.
A witness told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was 11 when he was forced to emigrate in the 1950s.
He was then sexually abused by priests at a care home in Tasmania.
The man accused the British government at the time of robbing him of a family, a country and an education.
The evidence was heard as the inquiry in Edinburgh continues examining children’s homes, no longer operating, which were run by the Catholic order the Sisters of Nazareth in Scotland.
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