CALDEY ISLAND (WALES)
BBC News
November 29, 2017
There has been a new call for an independent inquiry into historical abuse on Caldey Island to be launched.
Eleven women claimed they were abused by Father Thaddeus Kotik when they were children. He died in 1992.
Welsh Conservatives children’s spokesman, Darren Millar, said the Welsh Government should instigate an investigation.
But he was told during Wednesday’s plenary in the Senedd that a police investigation was under way.
A support group has also called for an inquiry.
It comes after allegations of abuse against Kotik were made to the Pembrokeshire island’s abbey in 1990, but were not passed on to police.
Officers were told about the abuse in 2014 and 2016, but could not prosecute as the monk had died.
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