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| Former pupils of Gordonstoun in Scotland have claimed they were raped and abused by teachers there |
Now Gordonstoun, the £32,00-a-year Scottish public school where the Queen's sons and children of Sean Connery and David Bowie were educated, has become embroiled in allegations of historical sex abuse.
Former pupils have spoken of a number of incidents at Aberlour House, the preparatory school that was part of Gordonstoun in Moray in Scotland. These included the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl and a boy who was molested by his teacher.
But the perpetrators appear to have so far gone unpunished because of Scotland's 'corroboration principle' which means allegations have to be verified by two separate forms of evidence - making prosecutions for sexual assault and domestic abuse notoriously difficult.
Prince Charles reportedly hated his time at Gordonstoun, frequently being bullied because he was heir to the throne. He was apparently put in a basket and left naked under a cold shower as part of an initiation ceremony at the age of just 13, and often wrote home to explain how he hardly got any sleep because he was often hit in the night.
Writer and novelist William Boyd, who was a pupil at the school at the same time as Prince Charles in the 1960s, likened it to 'penal servitude.' (more...)
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