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Christopher Walls, abused at what was one of Scotland’s top Catholic schools, says Church needs to make amends
LAST UPDATED AT 12:09 ON Mon 5 Aug 2013
A MAN who was sexually abused as a child by Benedictine monks at one of Scotland’s most prestigious Catholic schools has complained that an apology from the Bishop of Aberdeen at the weekend was “a bit thin” and had only been offered because the Church felt cornered.
Christopher Walls, now in his sixties, said: “You don’t get absolution when you go to confession just for saying sorry. You’ve got to have a firm purpose of amendment and that involves taking action. And you’ve got to make good the damage you did. And there’s no hint of that.”
Walls was physically and sexually abused when he was a pupil more than 50 years ago at Carlekemp Priory School in North Berwick, East Lothian, which served as a feeder prep school for Fort Augustus Abbey School in the Highlands. Both schools have since closed.
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