SCOTLAND
Express
By: Rod Mills
Published: Sat, March 9, 2013
An academic, who compiled a report for the church on how to deal with abuse, has claimed not enough was done to tackle the allegations.
The fresh claims come days after Cardinal Keith O’Brien, 74, formerly Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic, stood down after being accused of sexual contact with young priests.
The Roman Catholic Church is no stranger to scandal, but until now, Scotland has not been engulfed by allegations of abuse. In the mid-1990s, Dundee University ethics lecturer Alan Draper was appointed to advise the church on sexual abuse and how to respond to it.
Mr Draper, chairman of an abuse survivors’ group In Care Abuse Survivors (Incas), asked Scotland’s eight bishops how much they knew.
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