SCOTLAND
Daily Record
THE victim at the centre of the Carfin Grotto sex abuse probe yesterday revealed he was snubbed by Cardinal Keith O’Brien after begging him to investigate his tormentors.
Devout Catholic Pat McEwan sent a hand-written letter to O’Brien, then Scotland’s most senior churchman, in 2010 after undergoing years of counselling about his experiences.
The 63-year-old described in harrowing detail how he was raped by two priests and asked the then-Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh to help him.
But O’Brien washed his hands of the matter and sent it back to Bishop Joseph Devine of Motherwell, who Pat claims had previously asked him to forgive the alleged abusers.
A church spokesman denied O’Brien had turned a blind eye to Pat’s complaints.
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