Overview
- Marie O’Gorman, 79, and Mary McGuire, 68, sentenced Wednesday at Glasgow Sheriff Court to two-year supervision orders, 225 hours of unpaid work, and £1,000 compensation to each victim.
- The convictions cover assaults on seven children aged about 3 to 12 at Nazareth House in Cardonald between 1975 and 1981.
- O’Gorman, known to the children as Sister Mary Aelred, and McGuire, known as Sister Maria Bernadette, pleaded guilty to charges including cruel and unnatural treatment and assault.
- Evidence described beatings with a harness, slipper, leather belt, and wooden hairbrush, as well as humiliations such as forcing a child into a cold bath, with one victim left with a bruised eye.
- Officials highlighted a wider pattern of cases involving the Sisters of Nazareth, noting January convictions linked to homes in Lasswade and Kilmarnock that resulted in one jail term and other community sentences.