A 77-year-old retired teacher has been convicted of abusing 18 girls at a former residential school in Scotland.

During her time at Forenthy House in Angus, Patricia Robertson tormented the girls, who were sent there for supposed ‘short-term respite’ from their homes.

Instead, they were force fed, assaulted, humiliated and left in tears.

One survivor told jurors, ‘I just wanted to curl up like a wee baby. I still do not understand how an adult could be like that.’

Robertson had denied the accusations during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

She accepted having a ‘strong voice’ when dealing with the girls, but insisted she was not violent or bullied them. The pensioner was convicted of a total of 18 charges of cruel and unnatural treatment of the youngsters between January 1969 and

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