SCOTLAND
Daily Mail
By Ben Spencer
There was a widespread cover-up of child sex abuse in the Scottish Catholic church, it has been alleged.
Scots bishops reportedly knew of at least 20 allegations of abuse between 1985 and 1995.
The Church in Scotland insists child protection procedures have since improved dramatically and such cases are now rare.
In the mid-1990s, Alan Draper, a lecturer at Dundee University, was appointed to advise the Church on sexual abuse.
The BBC said it had seen letters to him from Scotland’s eight bishops which refer to 20 allegations of abuse by priests.
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