A monk used a pet tortoise to entice children and then sexually abuse them at a monastery on a remote holy island, a report has found. Caldey Abbey has been home to a small community of Trappist monks for over a century and receives up to 60,

Review finds Father Thaddeus Kotik raped young girls and boys while Caldey Abbey’s leadership repeatedly failed to report allegations to authorities

Rebecca is one of 16 survivors who have shared their experience of child sexual abuse by a monk who lived on Caldey Island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, Father Thaddeus Kotik abused children who lived and visited the island,