SCOTLAND
Kincardineshire Observer
Published on 15/08/2013
A former headmaster of a Catholic boarding school at the centre of sexual abuse allegations has resigned from a role at Oxford University.
Father Francis Davidson has been accused of failing to act on reports during his time at the Catholic Fort Augustus Abbey School in the Highlands in the 1970s.
He has quit as monastic superior of the Benedictine college St Benet’s Hall, where he was responsible for the welfare of student monks at the university.
Alleged victims who attended the Abbey school told a BBC Scotland investigation that they were molested and beaten by monks over a period of three decades from the 1950s.
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