Cardinal Keith O’Brien Faces New Abuse Claims
Posted By: namaste
Date: Saturday, 16-Mar-2013 16:38:07
Date: Saturday, 16-Mar-2013 16:38:07
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By MARTYN McLAUGHLIN Published on Saturday 16 March 2013 00:19 A FORMER trainee priest is to take legal action against Cardinal Keith O’Brien after claiming the cleric abused, groped and kissed him during a visit to a seminary. The ex-seminarian, who was a teenager at the time of the incident, alleges that the disgraced former Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh abused him after inviting him into his room following dinner for an alcoholic drink. The victim’s solicitor said his client had been left “disturbed” by allegations surrounding the cardinal in recent weeks, which had “brought the past back.” He decided to come forward in the hope of encouraging any other victims to speak out. The claims by the former trainee priest, now married with children, are separate from the allegations that the cardinal “behaved inappropriately” towards three priests and a former priest in the 1980s. Read more http://www.namastepublishing.co.uk/cardinal-keith-obrien-faces-new-abuse-claims/ |
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