SCOTLAND
BBC News
A catholic priest at the centre of child abuse allegations has been dismissed.
The Catholic Church said Thomas Mullen, who was the priest at Our Lady of Lourdes in Dunfermline, Fife, had been found guilty of “canonical offences”.
BBC Scotland has spoken to a man, now in his 30s, who claims he was abused by the priest from the age of nine.
Archbishop Leo Cushley said the gravity of the abuse of minors was something which could not go unheeded.
In a letter Archbishop Cushley, of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, said the diocese was obliged in canon law to continue to look after Thomas Mullen’s practical and pastoral needs.
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