'House of horrors' Former pupils at Scots residential school left suicidal by 'sexual and physical abuse'
sexual and physical abuse that left them permanently injured and suicidal.Victims say they were regularly attacked by staff members at remote Fornethy House after being told they were going to a holiday camp.Detectives are investigating allegations of sexual and physical assaults at the girls-only facility which was run by Glasgow’s local authority in Kilry, Angus.Poorly youngsters from working- class families were taken to the school 90 miles from the city for “convalescent” breaks after it opened in 1961.However members of a newly-formed survivors group say they were routinely beaten and degraded by workers when they arrived.Some were as young as five when they were taken to the site which has been described as “beyond cruel”.Marion Reid