WALES
BBC News
December 12, 2017
Two more sex offenders have had ties with Caldey Island which is at the centre of calls for an inquiry into historical abuse, a source has claimed.
Six women have been paid compensation following sexual abuse by a monk at the Pembrokeshire island’s abbey.
It later emerged a fugitive child sex offender fled to the abbey to hide out.
The abbey has confirmed a priest was convicted of offences after leaving the island but denied knowing a serial sex offender had also stayed on the island.
BBC Wales has reported in recent weeks that Father Thaddeus Kotik lived on the island for 45 years and abused several girls there in the 1970s and 80s.
Child sex offender Paul Ashton fled to Caldey island in 2004 while on the run from the police after being charged with possessing indecent images of children.
He lived in the abbey until he was arrested in 2011.
Another sex offender believed to have lived on the island is notorious predator John Cronin.
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