Women who say they were beaten and sexually assaulted at a girls’ school have hit out after being told they won’t get money from a new compensation scheme.
Survivors from Fornethy Residential School have been told they don’t qualify under the taxpayer-funded Redress Scheme, expected to start handing out money later this year.
Marion Reid, 63, a co-founder of the group who said she was abused there in 1965, said it was “a bitter blow”.She said: “It belittles the abuse many of us suffered.
It’s like the Scottish Government are saying, ‘Yes, you were abused but you weren’t abused long enough.’“Many of the women in the group might only have suffered six weeks’ abuse – physical and in some cases sexual – but the long-term effects has lasted
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