SCOTLAND
Gazette
A NUN accused of battering teenage girls resigned as headmistress of the school where the alleged abuse took place and left the country, a court has heard.
Anne Kenny, who is known as Mother Rosaria, stepped down from her post at Dalbeth Approved School, in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, in March 1971.
She then left Scotland and headed for London, where she enrolled in a course to reaffirm her faith.
Kenny, 79,and co-accused Agnes Reville, who is known as Mother Martin, are charged with assaulting six girls at the school, which was run by The Good Shepherd group, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
They deny hitting the girls with carpet beaters and riding crops, dragging them down corridors and locking them in rooms against their will.
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