by Audrey57 » Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:50 pm
Hi I’m Audrey been reading this thread as I too was born there Oct 1961 I wasn’t sure why there because all other kids were born in local hospitals but having read some of this case and reply’s saying it would be noted in the newspaper if there were wrong doings , I came across this
Names of buried disabled children unearthed in mass graves revealed
DOZENS of severely disabled children were buried in mass graves by the state after they died in Scottish psychiatric hospitals.
By BEN BORLAND
00:01, Sat, Sep 16, 2017 | UPDATED: 20:11, Sat, Sep 16, 2017
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Dozens of severely disabled children were buried in mass graves by the state
Youngsters from the infamous Lennox Castle Hospital in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, were laid to rest as recently as 1975 in a sprawling paupers’ plot alongside hundreds of adult patients.
The names of the children can be revealed publicly today for the first time as the only memorial to the dead is a small carved inscription on the wall of an abandoned churchyard.
In addition, our investigation has found children from at least two other psychiatric hospitals in the Glasgow area were buried in unmarked graves.
The revelation adds weight to the calls for the disturbing history of common burials for children in care to be examined by the Scottish child abuse inquiry.
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Last week, new research revealed up to 400 children who died at the Smyllum Park children who died at the Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark had been buried in an unmarked grave in the town.
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A memorial to the forgotten orphans was erected at St Mary’s Cemetery in 2004 after the scandal was first exposed, although it was previously thought that only 120 children were buried there.
However, the most recent burial by the nuns of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul – who are also accused of beating and abusing their terrified charges – was in 1964.
Remarkably, it can now be shown that the practice continued for more than a decade after this date for children who died while in the care of the NHS.
Alan Draper, from the In Care Abuse Survivors (Incas) campaign group, said it was now “imperative” that Lady Smith and her inquiry team examine Lennox Castle Hospital and other such institutions.
As this newspaper has revealed, there is evidence disabled youngsters were subjected to medical experiments while they were in these hospitals.
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Youngsters from the infamous Lennox Castle Hospital in Lennoxtown were buried as recently as 1975
There are even claims that these drug trials and the testing of barbaric psychiatric techniques such as sleep deprivation and repetition were linked to a CIA-funded programme exposed in the USA many decades ago.
Mr Draper said: “It is a situation that must be explored. We asked for medical experimentation to be included in the terms of the inquiry and now it is subject to survivors and family members coming forward.
“The mass grave at Smyllum is not a new story and Incas has held a memorial service at the cemetery for many years, but the paucity of records meant that until now the extent of the burials was not known.
“It is imperative that Lennox Castle Hospital is included in the inquiry. Who was authorised to carry out these burials and why were very young children in an adult institution in the first place? We need to know what happened to these children. How were they treated, what safeguards were in place to protect them and, most of all, how did they die?
“Of course, the issue is wider than Smyllum. I suspect that most Victorian institutions were burying children in mass graves. Questions need to be asked at the very highest level, especially where there is any suggestion that children were being subjected to medical experimentation and may have died as a result.