UNITED KINGDOM
The Tablet

October 12, 2018

By Rose Gamble

The inquiry found that children were starved of love, dignity and compassion

Children at two Catholic residential homes in Scotland were subjected to emotional, physical and sexual abuse for decades, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) has found.

In its interim report published on 11 October the Scottish child abuse inquiry (SCAI) found that the young boys and girls housed in two homes run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul (DoC) were subjected to excessive discipline, sexual abuse and were starved of love, dignity and compassion.

Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, said: “For many children who were in Smyllum and Bellevue, the homes were places of fear, coercive control, threat, excessive discipline and emotional, physical and sexual abuse, where they found no love, no compassion, no dignity and no comfort.”