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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sarah Ward

Boarding school ‘protected abusers’ for six decades, inquiry concludes

Merchiston Castle School has apologised (PA) - (PA Archive)

A report into the exclusive Merchiston Castle School has concluded that for 60 years, “abusers were protected by tradition”.

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith has published her findings on the provision of residential care at the Edinburgh boarding school, concluding that over almost six decades, there was a “more or less continuous line of indecency” from two named perpetrators.

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