SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Thursday 15 August 2013
A former headmaster of a Catholic boarding school at the centre of claims of sexual and physical abuse by monks has resigned from a senior role at a Benedictine college of Oxford University.
Father Francis Davidson is accused of covering up child abuse during his time at Fort Augustus Abbey School in the Highlands.
He was accused of failing to alert police to at least one allegation.
He is quitting as monastic superior of St Benet’s Hall, responsible at the Oxford college for the welfare of student monks.
His resignation comes after allegations of abuse at the now closed school and feeder school Carlekemp in East Lothian spanning 30 years. Some 50 former pupils have come forward alleging abuse at the schools between the 1950s and 1990s.
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