No Truth to Claims of Abuse, Says Nun Anne Kenny

By Ashlie Mcanally
Scottish Sun
May 10, 2013

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4921579/No-truth-to-claims-of-abuse-says-nun-Anne-Kenny.html

AN elderly nun yesterday denied hitting a girl with a carpet beater while she was head teacher at an approved school.

Anne Kenny, 79 — known as Mother Rosaria — said there was no truth in claims she was violent to three pupils at Dalbeath school in Bishopton, Renfrewshire.

She told Paisley Sheriff Court she never imposed corporal punishment on kids under her care in the early 1970s Questioned over allegations she hit Catherine Logan, 57, with a carpet beater, she added: “We had no carpets to beat.”

The nun was later asked about accounts of events given by her accusers. She said: “They may have gone through these experiences some time in their lives but not at Dalbeath.”

Kenny, of Manchester, and Agnes Reville, 77, known as Mother Martin, of Newcastle, deny assault. Trial continues.