SCOTLAND
The Courier
by Aileen Robertson
August 8 2016
A survivor of sex abuse has held a vigil outside St Andrews Cathedral in Glasgow.
Dave Sharp, 57, organised the event, during which candles were lit and a piper played a lament to remember victims.
Before the event, he told The Courier he intended to invite church leaders to pray with him for those who had lost their lives to abuse.
Mr Sharp, who has been campaigning for justice for abuse victims, raised banners claiming victims like himself had been “abandoned” by the Catholic Church.
He said: “We need the Scottish public to help us to get the Scottish Government and the church leaders to stop turning their backs on us and to come out and talk to us about what they are doing about helping all those people who continue to suffer in isolation and addiction.”
Mr Sharp gave evidence to police as part of a recent investigation into historic abuse at St Ninian’s School in Falkland.
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