SCOTLAND
Scottish Sun
By Conor Riordan
3rd May 2018
STAFF at an Aberdeen orphanage forced a girl to “kiss a dead nun” during her five-year stay, an abuse inquiry has heard.
The witness, who cannot be named, had her statement read at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
The woman, who stayed at Nazareth House between 1969 and 1974, wrote that she was made to kiss a dead nun and was then beaten for refusing to do so.
Her statement went on to detail how she was force fed her food with a fork by one of the nuns, after complaining about it.
Chair Lady Smith also heard from a former orphanage volunteer who told how she tried to cover up a child’s bed wetting after nuns branded him a “dirty boy”.
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