Man tells child abuse inquiry how hunger forced him to eat grass at 'evil' Scottish orphanage

A man who says that hunger forced him to eat grass while he was at a Scottish care institution in the 1960s has told an inquiry there was a "culture of evil among religious orders" at that time.

Man tells child abuse inquiry how hunger forced him to eat grass at 'evil' Scottish orphanage

A man who says that hunger forced him to eat grass while he was at a Scottish care institution in the 1960s has told an inquiry there was a "culture of evil among religious orders" at that time.

A witness told Scotland's Child Abuse Inquiry that he was "never happy" during his time at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark and was frightened of almost all the nuns in charge.

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