SCOTLAND
Daily Record
BY JAMES MONCUR
24 AUG 2017
An abuse victim has won a 40-year fight to secure compensation from the notorious Christian Brothers monks.
Dave Sharp was awarded a “significant five-figure sum” decades after he was repeatedly raped and beaten at St Ninian’s residential school in Fife.
He is the first person in Scotland to win a payout from the Catholic order, who ran residential schools for children across the world.
The payment is likely to allow hundreds of other Scottish victims to win compensation for historical abuse at various organisations.
Dave, 59, said: “I hope my payment is the first of many the Christian Brothers are forced to make to those men whose lives have been wrecked because of the treatment they received as children in Scotland’s residential homes and schools.
“There are dozens of victims out there who have far stronger cases than mine.
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