The Offender Database reported that Carol Buirds and Eileen McElhinney, the Sisters of Nazareth Child Abusers, two former nuns, have been convicted of violently abusing vulnerable children at residential institutions in Scotland over 40 years ago.
Carol Buirds, 75, and Eileen McElhinney, 78, inflicted undue pain and harm on multiple children at two residences operated by the Catholic order Sisters of Nazareth.
Dorothy Kane, a retired support worker, was convicted at Edinburgh Sheriff Court of two counts of administering cruel and inhuman treatment to children.
The offences occurred at Nazareth House facilities in Lasswade, Midlothian, and Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, as well as at an unidentified location in Dunbar, East Lothian, between 1972 and 1981.
Throughout a five-week trial, jurors were informed that Carol Buirds had assaulted children in her custody by striking, punching, and kicking them, compelled them to ingest soap and food, and confined one victim in an unlit dungeon without sustenance or water.
The ex-nun, identified as Sister Carmel Rose, additionally applied urine-soaked blankets to the heads of two youngsters.
A toddler was consistently compelled to ingest soap, while bystanders laughed at their attempts to puke. She compelled the child to endure frigid baths.
Carol Buirds, of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, perpetrated assaults on youngsters utilising various devices, including a belt, a rod, a wooden ruler, and a slipper.
Over 300 individuals have lodged complaints with the police, and the inquiry chairperson, Lady Smith, has characterised four Nazareth House facilities in Scotland as “environments of fear, hostility, and confusion.”
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