Sister Alphonso faces 23 charges of cruelty A nun has appeared in court charged with child abuse at children's homes run by the Catholic Church.
Sister Alphonso - alias 57-year-old Marie Docherty - is accused of cruelty against 23 girls between 1962 and 1980.
The charges, presented at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, allege child abuse at Nazareth House bases in Aberdeen and Midlothian.
It has been alleged that the children, aged between two and 17, were subjected to cruel and unnatural treatment.
Sister Alphonso denies the 23 alllegations on indictment, including beating girls with hairbrushes, toys and cutlery, dragging them by the hair, and force-feeding them, all causing injury.
Case postponed
Sheriff Alexander Pollock granted a defence motion to postpone the case until later this year.
The Poor Sisters of Nazareth ran children's homes in Glasgow and Lanarkshire as well as in Aberdeen and Midlothian.
The Aberdeen Nazareth base, which is given as Sister Alphonso's address, was founded in 1872 and at one time housed more than 300 children.
It became an old people's home in 1982, caring mainly for elderly women.
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