A mother broke down in tears as she told an inquiry her severely disabled son suffered assaults, mistreatment and sexual abuse at a school for deaf children .

Giving evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry under the name Mary, the woman said her son was abandoned by the side of the road after being put out of a minibus on a trip from Donaldson's School for the Deaf. Mary cried in the hearing room after telling the inquiry of an incident in 2010 where she said he was sexually assaulted by other boys at the school - saying it had "destroyed" her family.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was born with severe learning difficulties. Mary said she and her family were initially "ecstatic" when he was given a daytime place at Donaldson's as they felt mainstream education

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