SCOTLAND
Scotsman
A MAN has failed in an attempt to sue disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien over alleged sex abuse by a parish priest.
The 33-year-old from Bathgate, West Lothian, claims he was given cash and rosary beads to buy his silence.
The priest he blames for molesting him between 1989 and 1992 has since died.
The 33-year-old went to the Court of Session in Edinburgh seeking £100,000 damages.
In papers submitted to the court, his lawyers tried to argue that Cardinal O’Brien and other senior figures in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy in Scotland should legally carry the blame – in the same way that an employer can be sued over an employee’s wrong doing.
The churchmen named in the action are the trustees of the Archdiosese of St Andews and Edinburgh.
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