SCOTLAND
Evening Times
DETECTIVES are investigating historical claims of abuse made against two priests.
It came after a father-of-two claimed a priest raped him at one of Scotland’s holiest Catholic sites, Carfin Grotto, near Motherwell in North Lanarkshire.
Pat McEwan, now 63, waived his right to anonymity to speak out about the alleged abuse.
He says the alleged sex attack happened when he was a young boy and claimed it was one of many he suffered at the hands of a group of priests in the west of Scotland.
He said he had visited the grotto, a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes, with his mum and sister to visit a senior priest.
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