Father Francis Paul Moore is on trial for child molestation, despite escaping the United States to Scotland. But a new survivor of alleged abuse has come forward.

According to Irvine Times, a 51-year-old man who cannot be identified for privacy reasons, revealed he was visiting the church with his cousin. The boy had been locked in the office with Moore and he was banging on the door demanding his cousin be released.

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He said that was when the “priest pounced and he knew he was going to be his next victim.”

“He’s perverted, pathetic and a monster. I was going to be his victim but I got out,” he said. “I shouted ‘I want my cousin,’ and he said, ‘Get out’ and then came out. He pinned me against the wall with his belly pressing up against me, I was only 11 but I could tell what was next. I punched him in the gut and he fell backwards so I managed to get out of there.”

The priest then instructed some older boys to get him and they beat him up. He continued to be a target at school for going after the priest.

“I walked to the police station to try and expose him but they said, ‘What do you want us to do about it?'” he recalled. “I had to apologize and he phoned my school and I got the belt every morning for a month.”

Moore was jailed earlier this month when his years of accusations caught up to him. Moore was convicted of abusing one of the boys at “St. Mark’s Primary School in Irvine, another at the Magnum Leisure Centre and the third at Irvine Beach 40 years ago,” the Irvine Times explained. One of the boys was as young as 5-years-old.