A woman who was repeatedly sexually abused has told an inquiry she was beaten with a broom handle after telling the very people who were meant to protect her.
Shirley Caffell, who has waived her right to anonymity, told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry of the years of neglect she suffered when she was put into a Portobello foster home between June 1965 and March 1968.
Ms Caffell found her way into the care system after she was abandoned in The Meadows, Edinburgh. She had gone to her grandparents house in Leith only to have the door slammed in her face.
