SCOTLAND
STV
By Matt Coyle
16 December 2014
The Catholic Church in Scotland faced 15 allegations of sexual and physical abuse in 2013, it can be revealed.
The allegations were made against seven priests, three volunteers, two parishioners and one other person.
Some of those had more than one allegation made against them, a new audit report has found.
Six of the 15 allegations made against the church were historical, dating back to the 1980s or earlier.
Ten of the claims made related to sexual abuse in some form, three involved physical abuse, two were of physical abuse and one of emotional abuse with two further allegations of verbal abuse.
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