'Abuse' at Monk School Is Probed

By Lucy Christie
Scottish Sun
July 31, 2013

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/5043571/Abuse-at-monk-school-is-probed.html

COPS have launched a probe into claims pupils were sexually abused at a former Catholic boarding school.

Five alleged victims say they were molested or beaten by monks — including Australian Fr Aidan Duggan — from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Donald Macleod, a former pupil at Fort Augustus Abbey school in Inverness-shire, claimed he was raped by Fr Duggan — who died in 2004.

He told a BBC programme: “I was called into the headmaster’s office and he said he’d heard I’d been telling my parents about Fr Aidan and that I shouldn’t tell these lies and that it’s a mortal sin to lie about things like that.”

The documentary also uncovered allegations the school, run by Benedictine monks, was used as a “dumping ground” for problem clergy who confessed to abusing kids.