A FORMER “house mother” who abused children in her care in the 1960s and 1970s has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
Retired social worker Euphemia Ramsay, 76, was last month found guilty of the cruel treatment of two children while she was employed at Quarriers Village following a trial at Greenock Sheriff Court.
The two victims were under her care while she was employed at Quarriers Village, a residential care facility in Renfrewshire, prosecutors said. Both victims said Ramsay would force-feed them, as well as used physical violence towards them and would hand out humiliating punishments for bed-wetting and for failing to finish meals.A jury found Ramsay guilty of two charges of cruel and unnatural treatment towards the victims.
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