Priests ‘out of Control’ Sexually, Claims Former Church Adviser

By Mike Wade
The Times
March 9, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article3709565.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_03_09


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.

According to a BBC report, the Church knew of 20 cases of sex abuse by priests. After collating the responses, Mr Draper said he recommended that independent experts should investigate further.