Fresh scandal hits Catholic Church in Scotland as four more alleged victims of sexual abuse by clerics come forward

SCOTLAND
Daily Record

ONE former trainee claims he was sexually and physically abused by a senior priest and a man who went on to become a Bishop.

A former trainee priest claims he was sexually abused by a senior cleric while at college.

The man, now in his 50s is one of four alleged victims of Catholic churchmen to have come forward in the wake of the Cardinal Keith O’Brien scandal.

O’Brien faces accusations of sexual misconduct from six priests and former priests.

He is not the subject of the claims by the four new victims who, we can reveal, have contacted lawyers in the last week.

They include a man and woman who say they were was abused by parish priests as children and a man who claims he was abused by monks in a home in the 1970s.

The most recent accusation concerns a man who claims he was sexually and physically abused while training at St Vincent’s seminary in Langbank, Renfrewshire, in the 1970s.

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