One such is to be seen at the People’s Palace Museum on Glasgow Green. It was in use at Govan police station and has holes cut for the feet, straps for the ankles, thighs and waist, and others for the hands stretched out above the head. Any naked 12-year-old held in that position and then birched might, understandably, recall the event half a century later.
The inescapable conclusion here:-judicial juvenile CP even in Scotland was confined to BOYS!
Judicial CP of women was abolished in 1810 & a little later in Scotland.
So, if it wasn’t fed through from the courts,I really doubt this was true. I wouldn’t have been surprised at bare-bottom canings or tawsings, legal or not, back then, in reformatories/approved schools, but I very much doubt the Scottish Calvinist tradition would have let that happen.