UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
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Three priests and a former priest have said that they felt “vindicated” after Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien admitted sexual misconduct.
The group had accused the senior Roman Catholic clergyman of “inappropriate behaviour” towards them in the 1980s.
Catherine Deveney, the journalist who broke the story in The Observer, told the Today programme she had spoken to the four men, and they felt a “mixture of sadness and a bit of relief that they’ve been vindicated”.
Ms Deveney also said that the allegations “could not have been more specific. The cardinal and the church knew exactly what they were”, rejecting the Cardinal’s initial claims that the allegations were anonymous and non-specific.
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