The family of a schoolgirl who died more than 50 years ago while running away from an orphanage have found out she may have been sexually abused.
Patricia Meenan’s siblings will renew their fight for answers over the 12-year-old’s death in 1969 after the new claim emerged in court papers.
Her tragic life is part of a civil case being prepared against the Daughters of Charity, who ran the controversial Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark between 1864 and 1981.
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