SCOTLAND/AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
Scottish Catholic Church abuse probe spreads to Australia with two monks implicated
CHARLES MIRANDA IN LONDON NEWS LIMITED NETWORK JULY 31, 2013
A PROBE into claims of serious physical and sexual abuse at some of Scotland’s most prestige Catholic boarding schools has moved to Australia with at least two Aussie monks implicated in the scandal.
And in an unfortunate twist, some of their victims who left Scotland to get away from the memories recently discovered they unwittingly had relocated to the same Australian cities as their former tormentors.
An investigation by the BBC has found systemic abuse and cover up at several Scottish boarding schools and in particular abuse by seven monks in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s including Australian priest Father Aidan Duggan who allegedly abused five boys.
Fr Duggan returned to Sydney in 1974 and became a parish priest in Bass Hill after claims against him were made to his Benedictine order in Scotland. He died in 2004, but there is now evidence the claims were known but covered up by the church in the UK.
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