Nuns jailed for 'cruel and unnatural abuse' of vulnerable children
Sisters Sarah McDermott and Eileen Igoe, both 79, subjected the youngsters to terrifying ordeals.
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Sisters Sarah McDermott and Eileen Igoe, both 79, subjected the youngsters to terrifying ordeals.
Two nuns and a care worker have been jailed for subjecting children to ‘cruel and unnatural treatment’ while working at an orphanage.
The three women mistreated children at Smyllum Park in Lanark for more than a decade until it closed in 1981.
Two nuns and a care worker who abused vulnerable youngsters at a notorious Scottish orphanage have been jailed for three years each.
Sister Sarah McDermott (pictured), 79, Sister Eileen Igoe, 79, and carer Margaret Hughes, 76, terrorised children in their care at the notorious Smyllum Park in Lanark between 1969 and 1981.