Girl ‘assaulted by priest in confessional’, children’s home inquiry hears

SCOTLAND
Glasgow Live

10 MAY 2018

A girl was sexually abused by a priest after she went to confession, an inquiry has heard.

The attack happened when the child went to show the priest a picture she had drawn of a chapel, the hearing was told.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) sitting in Edinburgh is currently examining children’s homes, no longer operating, which were run by the Catholic congregation the Sisters of Nazareth in Scotland.

A woman, who cannot be named, told the inquiry the incident happened shortly before she left Nazareth House in Glasgow’s Cardonald in the 1970s.

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