SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Helen McArdle
News Reporter
FRESH questions have been raised about how the Catholic Church in Scotland handles child sex-abuse cases.
It has emerged an Ayrshire priest who admitted abusing children almost 20 years ago is still being looked after by the Church.
Father Paul Moore, who is retired, reportedly confessed to the then Bishop of Galloway, Maurice Taylor, in 1996 that he had abused more than one boy.
Rather than reporting him to police, the bishop is understood to have sent him to a treatment clinic for child sex offenders in Canada, after which he was transferred to Fort Augustus Abbey.
However, the real reason for the priest’s departure from his parish in Prestwick was reportedly hushed up by the Church and the move described as a sabbatical.
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