Orphanage abuse claims ‘are rubbish’
ALLEGATIONS of historic child abuse at an orphanage are “absolute rubbish”, a former resident claims.
The witness at the Scottish Child Abuse inquiry said he had been “extremely well treated” at Smyllum Park in Lanark.
The man, now in his late 60s, said the nuns who ran the home were being unfairly portrayed as “monsters and out-and-out child beaters”.
He said his time at the orphanage was “positive”.
A second witness, also in his 60s, said previous evidence given to the inquiry was a “gross distortion of the truth”.
Other witnesses have recounted a catalogue of abuse at Smyllum Park, which was run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul and closed in the 1980s.
The inquiry continues.