SCOTLAND
The Press and Journal
JON HEBDITCH
April 7, 2017
A national abuse probe will investigate a former Aberdeen children’s home run by Catholic nuns next year.
Nazareth House, on the city’s Claremont Street, was founded by six women from the Sisters of Nazareth in London in 1862 and was once home to more than 300 children.
But the home has been dogged by allegations of historical abuse by the nuns for more than twenty years.
Now the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will investigate practices at institutions ran by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul and the Sisters of Nazareth throughout Scotland.
Hearings into Nazareth House will begin in 2018.
Police probed the house in 1997 and investigated more than 40 complaints by former residents.
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