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Sins of Our Fathers will be broadcast on BBC1 Scotland on Monday 29 July at 21:00
By Mark Daly
BBC Scotland Investigations Correspondent
A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of serious physical and sexual abuse at one of Scotland’s most prestigious Catholic boarding schools.
Accounts of abuse at the now-closed Fort Augustus Abbey School in the Highlands and feeder school Carlekemp in East Lothian span 30 years.
The BBC has spoken to 50 former pupils about their experiences at the schools, which were run by Benedictine monks.
The head of the Benedictines, Dom Richard Yeo, apologised to any victims.
The programme, BBC Scotland Investigates: Sins of Our Fathers, contains testimony from former pupils, speaking openly, and for the first time, about life with the monks.
Many said they had nothing but good memories of the place but during the six-month investigation, the BBC also heard accounts from old boys of physical violence and sexual assault including rape by monks at the fee-paying schools.
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