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London, Mar. 9 (ANI): A former Roman Catholic Church’s adviser on child abuse has claimed that the church’s priests in Scotland were ‘out of control sexually’ under the leadership of the disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
Alan Draper has accused the Church leadership, of being ‘unwilling’ to expose supposedly celibate priests who were leading ‘double lives’ in the 1980s and 1990s.
Draper, a lecturer in ethics from Dundee University, was brought in to advise Scottish bishops on abuse allegations, but was removed after a disagreement, the Telegraph reports.
According to the report, he has disclosed that bishops were aware of 20 separate cases in the Church between 1985 and 1995.
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