UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Revealed: Face of boy abused in Elm House scandal as Catholic priest and head of boys’ home are arrested
Smartly dressed in his school uniform, the 12-year-old boy is a picture of youthful innocence.
But within two years of this photograph being taken, Peter Hatton-Bornshin’s life had been ripped apart.
He was orphaned following his mother’s suicide and then suffered appalling sexual abuse while in the care of social services in the early 1980s. Tormented by his experience at the council-run Grafton Close Children’s Home in West London, Peter took his own life in 1994. He was 28.
The first picture of Peter, whose tragic life was revealed by the Mail last Saturday, emerged today as two men were arrested by detectives investigating allegations that a VIP paedophile ring preyed on Grafton Close boys at the gay-friendly Elm Guest House in Barnes, South-West London.
A former deputy head of Grafton Close, John Stingemore, 70, was detained during a dawn raid at his housing association flat in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, over claims he sexually abused several boys in his care three decades ago.
A Roman Catholic priest from Norfolk – Father Tony McSweeney, 66 – was also arrested on suspicion of indecently assaulting boys at Grafton Close.
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