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Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, abbot of Downside from 1990 to 1998, was among three
Downside abbots accused by Father Aidan Bellenger, in a private letter, of tolerating
child abuse. Father Aidan, abbot from 2006 to 2014, said his predecessors "protected
and encouraged" paedophile monks. Wrongdoers at the school were quietly moved between
Benedictine monasteries and parishes. Reference was made to instructions from Rome to
destroy documents that were damaging to priests. Father Leo insisted that his decision
to make a bonfire of Downside's staff files was prompted by a desire to "get rid of
unnecessary old material". He accepted that the files should, under safeguarding
requirements, have been kept for 70 years, conceding that he may have unintentionally
destroyed information about child abuse.[30]
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