SCOTLAND
BBC News
A priest has gone on trial accused of sexually abusing two children in the Western Isles when he was a teenager.
Father John Angus MacDonald, 69, is claimed to have repeatedly raped a schoolgirl at a property in the Outer Hebrides between 1957 and 1958.
He is also alleged to have used lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards a 10-year-old boy at various places on an island a few years later.
MacDonald denied all charges against him at the High Court in Aberdeen.
The court heard that MacDonald left the Hebrides just before his 13th birthday to train to be a priest at Blairs College in Aberdeen in 1958.
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