SCOTLAND
Scotsman
CHRIS MARSHALL
Thursday 15 June 2017
The leader of a religious order has apologised for a “disturbing lack of awareness” which allowed staff to physically and sexually abuse boys at residential schools.
Brother Laurence Hughes, head of the De La Salle Brothers in Great Britain and Ireland, told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he would have expected other members of staff to have known what was going on.
Br Hughes said he had already met with survivors abused by the congregation in Northern Ireland and was prepared to do so in Scotland.
The inquiry, before Lady Smith, was told an estimated 9,300 pupils, many with emotional and behavioural difficulties, attended five institutions run by the Brothers between 1914 and 1992.
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