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Woman describes decade of hell in the clutches of nuns
A WOMAN who allegedly suffered a decade of brutal abuse at an orphanage run by nuns has described her ordeal.
Theresa Tolmie-McGrane told the BBC of her mistreatment in the 1970s at Smyllum Park Orphanage in Lanark, which is being examined by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
A priest started to sexually abuse her when she was eight, two years after she arrived there.
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