https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8de3ld05yo
Wow, I never knew about this and I lived in Scotland throughout this period. It was never spoken of anywhere that I knew of, I only ever encountered one traveler child at school and that was in 1968, she was there only a few days and left, I had only just started school that year.
What makes this situation even worse is taking children out of the country and never seeing their families again. Can you imagine what it must have been like for parents to have all their children taken away and never seeing them again? This is pure evil and the Scottish church involved in this abuse too. The psychological and emotional damage caused would be immense and no healing for the lives destroyed. The adoption records should reflect the numbers of children removed surely unless they were deliberately hidden to prevent any future tracing of the children and parents.
This should never have been allowed to happen and a blatant violation of human rights and rights of children. This is unforgivable abuse and all those involved in this historic abuse must be held accountable.
I hope the Scottish people get behind the travelling community and support them in this horrendous crime. Ask yourself just what it means to be human and look into your hearts.
