Boy beaten after catching nuns in an embrace, Scottish child abuse inquiry told

A young boy was beaten "black and blue", as though he had been in a boxing match, after catching two nuns in an embrace, an inquiry has heard.

Boy beaten after catching nuns in an embrace, Scottish child abuse inquiry told

A young boy was beaten "black and blue", as though he had been in a boxing match, after catching two nuns in an embrace, an inquiry has heard.

A man said he was six or seven when one of the nuns went "mental" and "ballistic" as she lashed out at him in a boiler-room at a care institution in the 1960s.

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