January 17, 2006

UNI MONK GUILTY OF SEX ABUSE

SCOTLAND
Glasgow Daily Record

By Gordon Lyon
A UNIVERSITY chaplain was yesterday found guilty of a string of sex attacks on a woman.

A court had been told Carmelite friar Mark Paterson struck at his chaplaincy as his "vulnerable" victim helped with domestic tasks.

The woman had also been indecently assaulted by a priest in his 70s who previously worked at Aberdeen University Chaplaincy.

The elderly priest admitted the attacks but the woman refused to bring charges.

However, she told Aberdeen Sheriff Court New Zealander Paterson, 47, a former sheep-shearer, groped her and exposed himself to her.

Posted by kshaw at January 17, 2006 07:56 AM