SCOTLAND
Daily Record
OFFICERS are asking people to contact them after former pupils claimed that they were molested and beaten by the monks who taught them decades ago.
VICTIMS of alleged abuse by monks at two Catholic boarding schools are being encouraged to contact police.
Dozens of former pupils at the Fort Augustus Abbey school in the Highlands and its East Lothian feeder school, Carlekemp, have claimed that they were molested and beaten by the monks who taught them decades ago.
A group of former pupils told a BBC documentary that they were raped or sexually abused by Father Aidan Duggan, an Australian monk who taught at Carlekemp and Fort Augustus between 1953 and 1974.
Fr Duggan died in 2004 but some abuse claims relate to men who are still alive and police said they have been investigating since March.
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