AUSTRALIA/SCOTLAND
Herald Sun
AAP AUGUST 20, 2013
VICTIMS of alleged abuse by monks, including an Australian, at two Catholic boarding schools in Scotland are being encouraged to contact police.
Dozens of former pupils at the Fort Augustus Abbey school in the Highlands and its East Lothian feeder school, Carlekemp, have claimed they were molested and beaten by the monks who taught them decades ago.
A group of former pupils told a BBC documentary that they were raped or sexually abused by Father Aidan Duggan, an Australian monk who taught at Carlekemp and Fort Augustus between 1953 and 1974.
Duggan died in 2004 but some abuse claims relate to men who are still alive and police said they have been investigating since March.
One former headmaster of Fort Augustus, Father Francis Davidson, resigned from a role at Oxford University last week amid accusations that he failed to act on reports of abuse during his time in charge in the 1970s.
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