SCOTLAND
Daily Record
18 March 2015 By Stratton Williams
Parishoners in a close-knit community this week told of their shock at their priest being probed by police over sex abuse allegations.
Father Richard Rodgers is under investigation by police into claims of “historic sex abuse.”
And the Cleland St Mary’s priest has been axed by Motherwell Diocese “for an unspecified period of time” after they received a complaint.
Fr Rodgers has also been kicked out of his parish house and his current whereabouts are unknown.
He is also chaplain to Cleland Hospital and St Mary’s Primary School.
A worried parishioner, who didn’t want named, said: “If what’s being said is true, then it’s disgusting.
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