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From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

Revealed: monk who abused children on 'crime free' Caldey
Island for decades

Exclusive: Abuse by a monk who preyed on girls on a tiny
island off the coast of Wales was covered up in the 70s
and 80s

Father Thaddeus Kotik and two children on Caldey Island.
Photograph: Supplied

By Amanda Gearing
The Guardian, theguardian.com
Friday, November 17, 2017

Summer holidays on Caldey Island were seemingly idyllic.
The tiny island off the Welsh Coast at Tenby is a place
of beauty and holiness, with bluebell woods, clifftop
walks, tea gardens and picturesque beaches. Pilgrims come
for religious retreat, staying in the island's cottages,
joining the monks in prayer at the imposing Italianate
Abbey of Our Lady and St Samson.

In November last year Caldey Island's reputation for
quaint charm was shored up by reports of the "only crime
in living memory" to be investigated by police – when a
father hit his seven-year-old son for misbehaving in the
chocolate shop. The father faced court and got a fine;
the monks were reported to be "concerned" about the
island's "crime of the century".

For Emily those news reports were like a "punch in the
stomach". Some of her earliest memories are of an
altogether more serious crime: being sexually abused by
one of the monks, a predator called Father Thaddeus
Kotik.

Continues at:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/18/revealed-monk-who-abused-children-on-free-caldey-island-for-decades

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Om Shanti

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