Caldey Island - owned by the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance - was no sober religious mission, but a sordid den of sexual deviance and moral iniquity.
Roman Catholic Trappist monks are expected to refrain from unnecessary speech, commit to hard labour and devote their lives to piety.
Father Thaddeus Kotik was described by one victim as a 'Michael Jackson-like' character, who used a pet tortoise, kittens and gifts of sweets, biscuits and yoghurt from the island's dairy, where he worked, to groom, rape and molest children The truly damning 73-page report was commissioned in April this year by the recently appointed Abbot, Father Jan Rossey, and was compiled by former assistant police and crime commissioner Jan Pickles OBE. A total of 16 survivors have provided Pickles with their own moving and oftentimes harrowing testimonies.
More than 50 children who visited a remote holy island off the coast of Wales were raped or subjected to vile sex abuse by paedophile monks, a leaked report reveals. Father Thaddeus Kotik , was a prolific abuser of children in the 1970s and 80s The report found he used 'complex strategies' to groom young children and earn the trust of their parents.
In a heartbreaking admission, Victim 001 revealed to Ms Pickles that he feared getting into trouble if he didn't agree to meet with the monk, and even that he volunteered to do so in order to protect his younger brother from the same fate.In another disturbing account, a witness to Kotik’s abuse recalled an occasion in which a young girl was ‘half lying on Father Thaddeus’s chest… He was kissing her around her face and on her lips… Part of his hand was under her pants fondling her bottom.
Father Thaddeus Kotik died in 1992 without facing any criminal charges into claims he abused children on the holy islandThe island shop stocks Isle of Caldey chocolate along with souvenirs including tea towels, table mats and teddy bears In 2011, Father John Shannon, then 58 – who lived on the island for 11 months and was previously chaplain at the University of East Anglia – was sentenced to eight months in jail for downloading 740 indecent photographs of children aged between 9 and 15.
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