Third Australian Monk Implicated in Fort Augustus Sex Abuse Scandal

By Mark Daly
BBC News
August 15, 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23718573

Four former pupils were abused, or witnessed abuse by Fr Fabian Duggan

A third Australian monk has been implicated in a suspected paedophile ring at a former Catholic boarding school in the Highlands.

In a BBC programme, Australian monks Fr Aidan Duggan and Fr Chrysostom Alexander were exposed as paedophiles.

They inflicted physical and sexual abuse against pupils at Fort Augustus Abbey School and feeder school Carlekemp, East Lothian.

Now Fr Fabian Duggan, Fr Aidan's brother, has been accused of sex abuse.

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The BBC has spoken to four former pupils who were abused, or witnessed abuse by Fr Fabian.

Kees Vogt, who started at Carlekemp as a nine-year-old in 1969, is one of them.

He told the BBC: "Father Fabian had a long narrow room and what he would do, he would tend to call children in to talk to them. And, what he would then tend to do, is he would go to the other side where you would be trapped inside the room and you couldn't get out again.

"One time I was in there, I have no idea why I was in there, and then he basically just put his hand down inside my trousers and started to fondle me. I turned away as fast as I could and rushed out."

Mr Vogt, from Tanzania, was also abused by Fr John McBride, about whom the BBC has heard allegations from 10 former pupils.

"It was endemic, " Mr Vogt said. "It happened the whole time…and I knew for myself that even though priests tried to do things to me, there was really no point to report this to other priests or anything like this. Because you would just be told that you were a liar."

The BBC submitted allegations to Fr Fabian and the Sydney Catholic church last Friday. He died the same day, aged 83.