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2 May 2018

We need a public inquiry into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church

IN 1976 in North Ayrshire the destinies of two children briefly kissed one afternoon and then spun off into different universes. A little clutch of infants from a Dreghorn nursery had been taken out to marvel at the huge papier mache shark displayed in a shop window to mark the arrival of Jaws at the local cinema. One of them would become the most powerful person in Scotland; the other would encounter a childhood and youth of unimaginable physical and sexual abuse by priests of the Catholic Church.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16174941.Kevin_McKenna__Catholic_leadership__39_s_great_betrayal_over_shocking_sex_abuse_of_children/