UNITED KINGDOM
Huffington Post UK
After more than 200 years, Roman Catholic monks could lose control of the running one of the country’s most prestigious private schools following a series of sex abuse scandals.
Downside School in Somerset is currently conducting a “major review” of the governance arrangements after Richard White, a former monk and teacher at the school, was jailed for abusing two boys there in the 1980s.
White, who was known as “Father Nicholas” to the 1,500 students at the school, was jailed for five years, having been sheltered from prosecution by the church for more than two decades, despite admitting his crimes to monastic staff.
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