'Nightmare': Nicola Sturgeon gives tearful apology over forced adoption in Scotland

'Nightmare': Nicola Sturgeon gives tearful apology over forced adoption in Scotland | The outgoing First Minister offered a 'sincere, heartfelt and unreserved' apology to as many as 60,000 women, many of them unmarried, who were affected by the policy between the 1950s and the 1970s. In a statement at Holyrood todays she said: 'The horror of what happened to these women is almost impossible to comprehend.' In one of her final acts at the Scottish Parliament in her role, Ms Sturgeon condemned the practice, with campaigners watching from the public gallery. 'We can acknowledge the terrible wrongs that were done. And we can say with one voice that we are sorry,' she said. #nicolasturgeon #uknews #ukpolitics #dailymail Original Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic... Original Video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news... Daily Mail Homepage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ Daily Mail Facebook:   / dailymail   Daily Mail IG:   / dailymail   Daily Mail Snap:   / 8392137033   Daily Mail Twitter:   / mailonline   Daily Mail Pinterest: https://pinterest.co.uk/dailymail Get the free Daily Mail mobile app: https://dailymail.co.uk/mobile