Bishop of Aberdeen to apologise to parishioners over alleged sexual abuse at former Catholic boarding school

SCOTLAND
Daily Record

HUGH Gilbert will say sorry for the hurt caused to victims at Fort Augustus Abbey over three decades.

BBC Scotland investigation that they were molested and beaten by monks over a period of three decades from the 1950s.

It has also been claimed that abuse was carried out at Carlekemp, its feeder school in East Lothian. Both schools are now closed.

Five men said on the Sins Of Our Fathers documentary, screened last Monday, 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.

Fr Duggan died in 2004 but some abuse claims relate to men who are still alive. Police are investigating the allegations.

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