SCOTLAND
Scotsman
Published on Wednesday 12 September 2012
A DETAILED report on child abuse allegations against a Scottish Catholic priest has been sent to the Vatican for a decision by the Church’s highest authorities.
Father Thomas Mullen, the priest at Our Lady of Lourdes in Dunfermline, was arrested in March last year by officers from Fife Constabulary in relation to allegations of child sex abuse dating back more than 30 years.
But earlier this year, the Crown Office decided to place the possible prosecution of the priest on hold, after Fiona Cameron, the procurator fiscal at Dunfermline, received a report from the Fife force.
A separate investigation into the allegations against the 71-year-old priest by the Catholic Church in Scotland was then ordered by Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the head of the Church in Scotland.
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