Dr Guthrie's Ragged Schools – Exclusively for Edinburgh's elite to abuse children with total impunity
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Children who have been abused within the walls of the schools have cried so much that the buildings
are saturated with horror.
I can't understand how Dr Guthrie's Association has been able to get away with such terrible abuse of children. The abuse that I witnessed and personally experienced was despicable - truly unbelievable.
I first complained of abuse in 1988, but nothing happened. And the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was a waste of time; they treated my allegations of abuse with utter contempt. I thought I would at least get an apology, eight years after I first contacted the Abuse Inquiry.
I haven't even received an apology.
I now regret ever having contacted the Scottish Abuse Inquiry and believing in it. How many other people have complained about Dr Guthrie's schools and had their complaints ignored as I have?
After decades of waiting for an inquiry into the abuse of children, we find that the Dr Guthrie's Association has not apologised, no one has been arrested and survivors are unable to make a claim against Dr Guthrie's schools
I once believed that those who had been victims of child abuse had a right to use the legal system to hold institutions to account.
In Scotland, some victims of child abuse get nothing;
some of us do not even get an apology
No one has ever been held accountable for the horrific child abuse that took place in Dr Guthrie's schools.
And no one is taking responsibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFFmhEmEVb8
No more cover-ups
Give us justice and closure
It is a fact that some survivors of abuse have been subjected to appalling treatment and have been completely ignored. This website had to be created because these people need to be exposed and I could not stand by and allow myself to be treated with the same contempt as when I was a child.
This institution, Dr Guthrie's Schools, and Dr Guthrie's Association, which controlled and profited from the management of the schools,
are getting away with heinous child abuse.
The people of Scotland, and Edinburgh in particular, have been told that Dr Guthrie's schools were Christian, benevolent, ragged schools where children were well looked after.
The reality is very different and those who survived Dr Guthrie's schools
are now bringing this reality to light in Scotland and the rest of the world
The victims of Dr Guthrie's schools are entitled to the same level of justice as any other abused child, and we believe that the Scottish Abuse Inquiry has completely ignored our calls for justice.
Please sign the petition below
Do not let them get away with appalling child abuse
As survivors and former pupils of Dr. Guthrie's approved/List D schools, "we haven't even had an apology" if we had known that, despite decades of waiting, we would never receive justice or closure.
The website and our petition would have been launched in 1997
There would have been a lot more survivors alive than there are now
But it's never too late to fight back