The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) has confirmed it has dealt with two cases of alleged sexual misconduct involving children.
SCIAF said one case involved a junior staff member for a joint organisation with other UK and Irish Catholic charities in Ethiopia, and the other a volunteer in Burundi.
The Burundi incident involved the alleged rape in 2012 of a 15-year-old girl by a 45-year-old Burundian man who volunteered for a local partner organisation for SCIAF.
The Ethiopian man accused in the other incident worked in the shared office of SCIAF and its sister UK and Irish aid charities Catholic international development charity (CAFOD) and Trocaire in 2016 when he was accused of sexual misconduct with a boy aged under 16.
Neither of the alleged victims were being helped by SCIAF and the incidents did not take place during any of the charity’s projects.
SCIAF director Alistair Dutton said both incidents were dealt with “decisively” and reassured supporters that the charity has stringent safeguarding procedures.
He said the Burundi man was reported to police, arrested and suspended as a volunteer, and the local charity partner co-operated with the police investigation and provided counselling and legal advice to the girl’s family. The case is since believed to have been dropped.
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