Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry: Orphanage volunteer ‘tried to protect boy from nun’s ridicule’

SCOTLAND
Sunday Post

Conor Riordan, 02 May 2018

A FORMER volunteer at an orphanage has told how she tried to cover up a child’s bed wetting to save him from being “ridiculed” by a nun.

Margaret White was studying at the University of Aberdeen between 1974 and 1977 when she helped out at Nazareth House in the city.

The 63-year-old told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry on Wednesday how she had never seen children being hit but she felt the way one boy was treated for bed wetting was “wrong”.

She said: “There was a young lad who did wet the bed and he was, probably, very harshly done by by the sister. He was never physically hurt.

“From what I know now, it was very wrong – a nine-year-old boy wetting the bed and being punished verbally.

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