SCOTLAND
STV News
December 5, 2017
Theresa Tolmie-McGrane described a catalogue of abuse at an orphanage in Lanark.
A young girl had her arm broken by a nun who had discovered the child was being sexually abused by a priest, an inquiry has heard.
Theresa Tolmie-McGrane told how she had hoped she would be protected when the nun walked in on the assault in 1970, when she was eight, but was instead called a “whore”, grabbed and thrown towards a wall.
She said she was then given a “real hiding” by another nun and threatened with having her other arm broken if she told anybody what had happened.
Ms Tolmie-McGrane waived her right to anonymity at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
She recounted a catalogue of abuse during her 11 years at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, which closed in the 1980s.
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