EDINBURGH (SCOTLAND)
The Scotsman
January 15, 2018
By John Jeffay
A disgraced priest who sexually abused young boys in care is to give evidence at the Scottish child abuse inquiry.
Sex offender Bernard Traynor, 64, has been called to give his testimony after allegations about him were made to the inquiry by former residents at Smyllum Park in Lanark last month.
Two former residents told Lady Smith, who leads the inquiry, they were sexually abused by Traynor after they were moved to another orphanage run by the same Catholic order in Newcastle.
One witness said he was sexually abused by Traynor at a caravan park in Scarborough in the 1970s.
Another former Smyllum resident said Traynor had sexually abused him at the Wallis’s Holiday Camp in Cayton Bay, Scarborough.
He also said the abuse continued at the St Vincent’s children’s home in Newcastle, run by the Daughters of Charity of Vincent de Paul, for “two or three years” afterwards.
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