SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Stephen Naysmith
A man who says he was abused for years in the care of the Catholic church is to chain himself to a cross in Glasgow in protest.
Dave Sharp, who grew up in Catholic orphanages, and attended St Ninian’s school, run by the Christian Brotherhood, is calling for the church to do more to help victims of abuse such as himself. He is also demanding an apology for the treatment children received at St Ninian’s.
A former headteacher and an ex-teacher from the school were convicted at Glasgow’s High Court last month of abusing and sexually assaulting six boys there in the 1970s and 1980s.
Dave Sharp, who spent six years at the school over the same period says he was repeatedly raped, beaten and drugged when he was in his early teens.
From Monday, he plans to chain himself to a home-made seven foot wooden cross outside St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow every day for 10 days, to highlight his claim that the church has turned its back on victims.
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