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United Kingdom: Scotland
Wednesday
August 23, 2000
12:33 GMT
NUN 'PUNCHED' SICK GIRL
A COURT HAS BEEN TOLD THAT A YOUNG GIRL SUFFERING FROM RHEUMATIC FEVER WAS PUNCHED IN THE
CHEST BY A NUN.
Patricia Milne said she was knocked off a footstool by the force of the
blow from Sister Alphonso, who is standing trail at Aberdeen Sheriff
court on abuse charges.
She was later carried upstairs to bed, and estimated it was another three
months before her condition was diagnosed as rheumatic fever and she was
admitted to hospital for treatment.
Mrs Milne, who is now 44, was a resident at Nazareth House children's
home in Aberdeen between 1959 and 1972.
She told the court on Wednesday that on one occasion she and other
youngsters had been made to line up and kiss a dead nun "to show
respect".
Mrs. Milne said she could not remember if it was Sister Alphonso or
another nun, Sister Hildegarde, who made her kiss the dead nun, but said
she had not wanted to carry out the act and felt "scared".
Mrs. Milne said she was aged between 10 and 12 when she had entered a
room to find Sister Alphonso - from the Roman Catholic order of the
Congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth - striking a five or
six-year-old boy.
"Sister Alphonso asked me to hold the boy down while she used a slipper
on his backside."
"She had him over the knee but the boy had been kicking her and so she
asked me to hold him while she hit his bottom with a slipper," said Mrs.
Milne.
The trial continues.
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