SCOTLAND
Scottish Catholic Observer
The Church’s national safeguarding officer in Scotland has said that any Church official who covered up child abuse will face the consequences.
Historic allegations of clergy sexual abuse going back to 1947 are currently subject to a review by the Catholic Church.
Tina Campbell (above), national safeguarding co-ordinator for the Scottish Catholic Church, said that for the first time the eight dioceses will be made accountable for their handling of clerical sexual abuse and that ignored allegations will be reported by her office to Police Scotland.
“They are having to report if they have acted or not,” she said. “If they say, ‘we found something in the file but we haven’t reported it to the police,’ they will be questioned about that. If there is an allegation and it has not been reported to police it must now be reported.”
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