Third Australian monk implicated in St Augustus sex abuse scandal

SCOTLAND/AUSTRALIA
BBC News

By Mark Daly
BBC Scotland Investigations Correspondent

A third Australian monk has been implicated in a suspected paedophile ring at a former Catholic boarding school in the Highlands.

In a BBC programme, Australian monks Fr Aidan Duggan and Fr Chrysostom Alexander were exposed as paedophiles.

They inflicted physical and sexual abuse against pupils at St Augustus Abbey School and feeder school Carlekemp, East Lothian.

Now Fr Fabian Duggan, Fr Aidan’s brother, has been accused of sex abuse.

The BBC has spoken to four former pupils who were abused, or witnessed abuse by Fr Fabian.

Kees Vogt, who started at Carlekemp as a nine-year-old in 1969, is one of them.

He told the BBC: “Father Fabian had a long narrow room and what he would do, he would tend to call children in to talk to them. And, what he would then tend to do, is he would go to the other side where you would be trapped inside the room and you couldn’t get out again.

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