This is a place of historical child abuse!!!  A member of staff was charged and taken to court last year,  showed no remorse over her actions towards young girls in her ward!.  Below is just a small piece about the courts ruling!  Regardless of her age this ruling is still a joke!!!....>>>

The Criminal Trial and ConvictionThe Offender: Patricia Robertson (also known as Baxter), a 77-year-old retired teacher who volunteered and worked at the school.The Verdict: In October 2025, at the High Court in Glasgow, Robertson was found guilty of 18 charges of cruel and unnatural treatment towards young girls in her care between 1969 and 1984.The Abuse: The court heard testimony from numerous former residents who had been sent to the home for short-term respite care. The state-employed staff subjected girls aged 5 to 12 to physical violence, force-feeding them until they vomited, hair pulling, and public humiliation (particularly targeting children who wet the bed).The Sentence (December 2025)Robertson was given a community-based sentence by Lord Colbeck at the High Court in Glasgow:A three-year Probation Order involving strict supervision.A 12-month curfew requiring her to remain at her home address between 3:00 PM and midnight daily.A requirement to pay £1,000 compensation to each of the 18 complainers (totaling £18,000).Note: The leniency of the community sentence sparked significant public outrage from survivors and their families, who felt it did not reflect decades of carried trauma.....

You can get in building just now

I wondered where that pink-haired girl was off to!

Not much good has ever come of residential schools

one of my dear friends/ colleagues was a fornethy girl when she was barely school age. the stories she has told of this place curdle my blood. its truly the stuff of horrors. I really hope the staff are burning in hell somewhere

I was there at Fornethy Residential School with Holy Family Primary school (now demolished) in Port Glasgow around 1992 if i remember correctly.

Our class went there for a "school trip" for around 4 days before we went to high school.  There were dormitorys a girls area on one side and a boys dormitorys in the other side next to the staff . Downstairs held a large TV/Recreation room with an amazing view across the fields, next to that was a cloak room and equipment rooms for hillwalking etc.

We were basically escorted around the countryside by the staff who worked there and got to do various activities like hill walking and exploring the beautiful forest and wildlife.

We all had a good laugh and enjoyed our  stay , it was made funny by an old pal who would do wrestling moves in the middle of the dormitory at lights out despite being warned to go to sleep by staff.

Little did i know this experience would not be my last encounter with residential care as i ended up in the prison system for many years in brutal conditions and became addicted  to class A drugs.

The walls of Fornethy residential school itself also saw abuse of young girls from the 1960s to the early 1990s and i guess it had just closed as a List D school when we arrived for a 'holiday"

Videos such as these help my recovery and aid good memories. I hurt a lot of people and live with the hurt ive caused daily. In the process i lost everything and 'just' managed to turn things around after 16 years in the Scottish Prison System.

Thanks for sharing this video ..keep up the good work mate and stay safe.

Rab McC

tried getting in but there was security being total dickheads

Heard a woman talking to spartan child protection team about the sexual abuse mental and physical abuse being drugged with amitriptyline drugs to knock them out and abuse them with men in power it makes me sick the horrific way they little kids got treated 😢😢😢 they evil sickos!

Went here with my sister as a child 🤔 place and staff were horrific

Fornethy is empty nobody lives there, inside is great to look round but the upstairs floor is a bit dodgy in places.

Hi, Thanks so much for the video. I was longing for you to look through the windows with the camera.

I went there when I was young about 6 or 7 my young sister was forced to eat vomit when she was sick wee got shite food and teacher minister and head got big roast. Got told it was haunted cause one of the staff died in one of the doms. Long walks got took somewhere at night to walk around something can't remember it after that I was happy I didn't have to go back there as a child. Wasn't aloud out your room at night to go to the toilet if u got caught u had to wait till the head teacher would come ask u where u were. That for a punishment the took your sweets away from you and wasn't aloud to watch a movie my mum told me all about this

Go back and burn it to the ground
Wicked place staffed by wicked people

Yes its spooky,house of horrors! Nothing but abuse went on there! Fornethy Residential Survivors Group.

It's older than 1915 thats for sure.you can't go by the dates on the guttering,just look at the old arch way for horse and carts,a new build in those days had cars,and it was in the middle of WW1 no man power to build it ,it's an old building that has maybe renovated deffo not a new build.

The orange middle car next to the mini is an old austin allegro, i remember when they was still being sold new in garages, im showin ma age noo 🤣🤣

Fantastic Once Again 👏🏻😀👍🏻 @BKR

Great video shame there wasn't a way in would of been good too see what it looked like inside but it's great your respectful enough not to force your way ☺️

Great explore 👍and aye, no need to force yer way in, there's enough to explore on the grounds. However, the hoose is supposedly linked to some upsetting past. It'll probably just rot away.

You should check the local old age homes, probably a few old teachers still alive that could tell some ghost stories of the place.