SCOTLAND
The National
February 15, 2018
By Greg Russell
THE head of a major Scottish charity has said there should be a register for aid organisations to share information about staff or volunteers who have been investigated over allegations of sexually abusing children.
Alistair Dutton, director of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (Sciaf), was speaking to The National after the charity confirmed it had dealt with two cases involving alleged sexual misconduct with children.
The first, in 2012, involved a 45-year-old volunteer for a partner agency in Burundi, who allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl; the second, in 2016, involved a junior staff member for a joint organisation with two other charities in Ethiopia, who was accused of sexual misconduct with a boy under 16.
His comments came amid scrutiny of the UK aid sector after Oxfam was accused of concealing the findings of an inquiry into claims its staff used prostitutes while delivering aid in Haiti in 2011.
He said there was “a real issue” with how charities passed information among themselves.
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