UNITED KINGDOM
Eagle Radio
9th November 2012.
A former City lawyer who claimed the abuse suffered at a Jesuit-run school caused him to make a mess of his life has been awarded £54,923 at the High Court.
Patrick Raggett said he was sexually abused by Father Michael Spencer, a teacher at Preston Catholic College, Lancashire, who died in 2000, aged 76.
He said the abuse started in 1970, when he was 11 years old, and left him feeling “violation, dread, isolation, shame and humiliation”.
Mr Raggett, now 54, said he did not connect his experiences at school with years of under-achievement at work, a failed marriage and binge drinking until he had therapy after a breakdown in April 2005.
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