DUNDEE (SCOTLAND)
The Sunday Post
January 13, 2019
By Marion Scott and Stacey Mullen
ALLEGATIONS of abuse have been made 126 times against Catholic priests in Scotland over the last 70 years, according to church documents.
However, the vast majority were not reported to police for years and only a fraction of those cases have ever been prosecuted.
Now campaigners are calling on Catholic Church leaders to publicly name all those who have had allegations made against them following the lead of the church leaders in the United States.
They have spoken out as we reveal how a Catholic priest accused of abuse in Scotland, where he had been moved around five parishes, was sacked only to find a new post in Los Angeles where he was later accused again.
The allegations made against Joseph Dunne in Scotland in 1988 were only reported to police in 2013 – 25 years after he was sacked.
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