Another abuse scandal and Abbot Laurence Soper again

Fort Augustus monks of long ago entertaining their charges on Loch Ness.

Another abuse scandal has recently broken: I found out about it last night. It is around the now-defunct Fort Augustus Abbey in Scotland and is a depressingly familiar tale: monks grooming youngsters while hiding under their respectable facade and other monks disbelieving what they were doing and punishing their victims. There are several points that stand out for this case for me:

1. The school closed twenty years ago (this seems to be a standard time before the targets of abuse talk about it), the monastery closed fifteen years ago. My normal response to this would be to hex the bastards, but given that the majority of the perpetrators are dead, even I can see that this would be of limited use.

That said it is important for these things to come out, so that even in their sixties the targets of abuse can get the validation of finally being believed. It is important that the perpetrators get the consequences of their actions of course, despite being very old men. The dead ones should have believed as Catholics that they would get those consequences after death. My wish for their surviving targets is that they are able to make the best out of their remaining years that they can do.

2. The targets' testimony on youtube should stand as a witness that neglect f*cks people up. To see grown men shaking and tearful shows what turds their abusers were. this is not just negligence: we have here a witness of the effects of negligence by the church authorities which amounts to an act of abuse in itself.

3. The Bishop of Aberdeen has apologised for this. Now. It is not widely connected that he is also a Benedictine himself. Fort Augustus were English Benedictines, he is the different congregation of Subiaco. Frankly I can't think of an English Benedictine monastery that has not had a sex scandal, frequently with children because until recently they all ran schools. Now I'm not a journalist but if I were I would see no reason why this story of Benedictines & abuse should not continue & would be looking for my next story of abuse in a Benedictine monastery. The other thing that strikes me about that is that he described the abusers in his apology as a few, but frankly there are a lot of barrels with rotten apples in here, & isince these few rotten apples keep appearing over & over, I'm not seeing a few rotten apples, I'm seeing a cesspit of rottenness.

Abbot Laurence Soper was an English Benedictine of course - you didn't think he'd passed under my radar, did you? He's still on The List. When you get on the list you stay on it until you're crossed off. There has been no news about him, but of course as a witch we don't have to rely on google to find things out.

What's happening with him? 2 of wands reversed. Etteilla keyword: Surprise! This means his downfall is coming along nicely. Don't forget my previous divination about him that he is a conscienceless sociopath, who genuinely believes he's done nothing wrong? This is how his downfall has to happen: it's a surprise!

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