Brothers removed to remote farm

"Torn away from their siblings, taken to a remote farm in the dead of night and forced to live a life of slavery from the age of four."

"It sounds like a horror story from hundreds of years ago. But it happened in post-war Scotland and the traumatised survivors say they are still trying to piece their lives back together. George, Jimmy and Tommy Clark were taken from their family home in Greenock and put into local authority care after their parents were ruled incapable of looking after them."

"The brothers – then aged four, six and nine - say that for the next four years, they slept in a filthy chicken coop and were forced to steal dog food to survive. Now the family are set to challenge the system to ensure Scotland’s so-called lost children are reunited with their siblings."

"George, 64, said he was four years old when he was regularly chained up for hours in a freezing-cold barn. He had no shoes on his feet and only a bowl of water to sustain him."

"He said: `People were shocked by the film, 12 Years A Slave. But Scotland has its own shameful history of slavery too.`"

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