SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Friday 16 August 2013
ONE of Scotland’s leading children’s charities has backed calls for an independent public inquiry to be held into claims of sexual and physical abuse at a Catholic boarding school.
Children 1st, which works with those affected by abuse in Scotland, said a police investigation into historic allegations at Fort Augustus Abbey School in the Highlands may not be enough to address victims’ concerns.
The charity has also called on the Catholic Church to fully co-operate with the ongoing investigation and for it to pass on any information it has to the police.
More than 50 former pupils of the school and its preparatory school Carlekemp in East Lothian, which have now closed, came forward last month with allegations of ill-treatment at the hands of monks from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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