SCOTLAND
The Times
Mike Wade
The Catholic Church in Scotland did not do enough to tackle child sex abuse by priests in a ten-year period from 1985, the Church’s own adviser has said.
Alan Draper was appointed in the mid-1990s to analyse the problem of sexual abuse by priests and to suggest how the hierarchy should respond to it. He wrote to Scotland’s eight bishops to try to assess the depth of the problem.
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