SCOTLAND
Scottish Sun
By LUCY CHRISTIE
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.
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