This brave lady is fighting for justice.
A Glasgow woman has told of the horrific abuse she endured at a residential school she was sent to as a child.
It would take 15 years after Fornethy House finally closed for the abuse to come to light with the majority of victims too traumatised to tell anyone, even their parents, what they had endured. "I remember getting off the bus. I was alone and didn't know a single soul and was crying and asking for my mum. I was told to stop crying and that my mum didn't exist for the next six weeks. I knew then that this wasn't going to be a holiday.
"They would take the sheets from my bed and shove them in my face and scrub between my legs with a brush." "The experience stayed with me my whole life. I struggled in school being around adults and taking orders. I also had problems with eating after it. Marion, who now lives in Carluke, told Glasgow Live: "I never put this behind me. I searched everywhere trying to find this place and I never gave up.
"I gave a description of the woman who terrorised me to the police but they never got back to me until two years later when they just told me she was dead. I had known she would be as she was an older woman at the time. Survivors have said they are unable to apply to the Scottish Government’s Redress for Survivors scheme – which pays out up to £100,000 to those abused in long-term residential care - because Fornethy was considered "short-term respite or holiday care" and because their parents consented for them to go.
"There are 114 in the group currently, it goes up and down. Some people need to take a break because it can get too much."A lot of the girls were from the Glasgow area, we came from Glasgow primary schools but there are no records because they have all been lost in a fire, destroyed, or have disappeared. I went to Riddrie Primary School, there were girls from Drummoyne Primary School and Hawthorn Primary School.
Laura Connor, head of the historic abuse unit at Thompsons Solicitors, represents many of the women who were abused at Fornethy House.
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