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olice are investigating dozens of fresh claims of child abuse at St William’s Community Home, in Market Weighton in Yorkshire. Two members of the De La Salle Order of Christian Brothers, which ran the home, have already been jailed for abusing a number of boys at the home. Five other members of the Catholic teaching brotherhood were also previously charged, but not convicted. Now, the 21 complainants, originally from Hull and the East Riding, have made fresh allegations against “several” members of the brotherhood which ran the home.
The former principal, Brother James Carragher, abused vulnerable boys — some as young as 12 — in the swimming pool, in the showers, in his personal chambers, and even in the care home's chapel. Some of his victims had been plied with alcohol. Others were made to take drugs. Details of the sickening abuse by Carragher and his colleague, Father Anthony McCallen, first emerged in the 1990s. Carragher was jailed for seven years for a catalogue of abuse and McCallen was imprisoned for three-and-a-half years, reduced to two on appeal, for indecent assault and taking indecent pictures of young boys in 1993. In 2001, nine separate accusations of abuse by teachers were made by former residents at the home.
They would be stopped from carrying out any activities with children. Why should the church be any different?
LET NO CHILDS' BEHIND BE LEFT
Originally posted by The Djin