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	Friends Reunited Helped Uncover Priest's Abuse Worthing Herald September 22, 2008 http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/latest-london-news/Friends-Reunited-helped-uncover-priest39s.4516095.jp A Battersea Catholic priest's sexual abuse of a class of schoolgirls was uncovered after 30 years when two old friends shared memories of him on the Friends Reunited website, it has emerged. Father Peter Carr, 73, of Orbel Street, indecently assaulted seven schoolgirls by rubbing stage paint into their naked bodies during school plays between 1969 and 1975. His crimes only came to light after the two women, now in their 40s - one a so licitor, one a singer - swapped online recollections about the clergyman's intimate application of the paint. They complained to police, who found that other girls were also abused at the boys school in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, after being invited there to join in with productions. Carr, whose duties included teaching drama, was convicted of eight counts of indecently assaulting six different girls after a trial last December. The details can now be reported after he pleaded guilty to abusing a seventh girl who was due to give evidence in a separate case. Prosecutor Ian Dixey told Gloucester Crown Court that Carr had put on two plays - Sinbad the Sailor and Tom Thumb - which he said required full-body make-up being put on. The jury heard he rubbed paint over the girls naked bodies, sometimes when they were alone when him, although he claimed he "only wanted to put on a good show" and had no other motive. One girl, who now enjoys a career as a singer, said that Carr had become a "monster in her mind" during all that time and she had never told of the abuse. Carr was bailed to await sentence next week after pleading guilty to two charges of assaulting the final girl.
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