SCOTLAND
Scotsman
Published on Friday 15 March 2013
Cardinal Keith O’Brien is facing legal action over new allegations of sexual misconduct from a former trainee priest, who claims he was abused by him as a teenager.
The former seminarian, who had known the cardinal since childhood, is staying anonymous, but said he had decided to come forward after the allegations of inappropriate behaviour which forced Cardinal O’Brien to quit as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh last month.
The latest allegations relate to a period in the 1980s when the man, now in his 50s, attended a senior seminary college, following four years at Aberdeen’s Blairs College for trainee priests.
He left the priesthood several months after Cardinal O’Brien, who was then rector of Blairs, allegedly groped and kissed him during a visit to the unnamed seminary.
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