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Additional allegations of physical and sexual abuse were made in opposition to a passe trainer at with out a doubt one of Scotland’s top deepest colleges.
Final week, one man told BBC Scotland’s Drivetime programme that he had been assaulted while a pupil at Edinburgh’s Fettes College in the 1970s.
Two varied males own now spoken to the programme about alleged abuse which they skilled at the college.
Fettes acknowledged it took such claims “extraordinarily seriously”.
The college acknowledged it encouraged any alleged victims to contact Police Scotland and the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
Drivetime interviewed one man last week who acknowledged abuse customarily took dwelling in a college room stout of students while he became as soon as attending the preparatory college.
‘Overwhelmed up’
He acknowledged one trainer would name boys, who had been extinct 11 or 12 years extinct, up to his desk, the put he would touch them beneath their shorts.
The passe pupil, who’s now in his 50s, has given written evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
After his interview became as soon as broadcast, two extra males contacted the programme to utter their tales.
One man acknowledged that the instructor would “openly” fondle boys while marking their work in the college room.
He acknowledged that on but every other occasion the instructor took him out of the college room and he became as soon as “beaten up” in a changing room.
“I became as soon as absolutely scared,” he acknowledged.
The man acknowledged that all people knew referring to the instructor’s behaviour, nevertheless that nothing became as soon as carried out.
‘Extraordinarily harrowing’
One more man told Drivetime that he had been assaulted in a “particularly vicious system” by the same trainer when he became as soon as 12 years extinct.
He acknowledged his mother or father chanced on out what had came about, and the problem became as soon as raised with the college.
He acknowledged the instructor became as soon as assign apart on a month’s sabbatical to “salvage his head straight”, and that he then returned to teaching but every other class.
A spokesman for Fettes described the males’s tales as “extraordinarily harrowing” and acknowledged it co-operated with the authorities in the end of alleged abuse.
“Fettes College takes all claims of non-recent shrimp one abuse extraordinarily seriously and now we own got been told by Police Scotland to encourage anybody with an allegation to contact them.
“We moreover picture them to contact the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.”
The spokesman added: “Fettes College is devoted to guaranteeing that every one pupils and workers are residing together in a score environment.
“Safeguarding is central to all that we conclude and is integral to the ethos of the college. It is the duty of all members of workers, right via the Fettes community, to play an active role in selling the wellbeing of all our pupils.”
Police Scotland acknowledged it had currently got a document about non-recent shrimp one abuse at Fettes.
The force acknowledged inquiries had been at an early stage.