SCOTLAND
Edinburgh News
DIANE KING
25 April 2018
A nun told a boy “your family doesn’t want you, your country doesn’t want you” as she informed him he was to be sent from Scotland to Australia.
A witness told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry hearing in Edinburgh he was 11 when he was forced to migrate overseas in the 1950s.
He was then sexually abused by priests at the care home he was moved to in Tasmania, the inquiry was told.
The man accused the British government at the time of robbing him of a family, a country and an education.
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