SCOTLAND
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Tue 13 Oct 2015
By Antony Bushfield

A retired priest accused of child sex abuse has denied he gave an alleged victim £10,000 to keep him quiet.

Fr Paul Moore, from Ayrshire, Scotland, said the money to the altar boy was a “loan” and a “private matter”.

The Catholic priest had admitted to child sex offences to the then Bishop of Galloway, Maurice Taylor, in the late 90s but he escaped police prosecution.

A BBC investigation found one of the alleged victims, an un-named man now in his 40s, claims to have been abused for several years as a teenager in Ayrshire.