UNITED KINGDOM
Bedfordshire on Sunday
Written by STEVE LOWE
IT is time for the Roman Catholic Church to apologise for past child abuse by Catholic priests and its own failure to prevent it.
This week the Church of England made just such an apology.
Revelations of abuse at the former St Francis Boys Home, Shefford, run by the Catholic Church until 1974, grow every week.
Only this week another former boy contacted Bedfordshire on Sunday to tell of how he suffered extreme physical abuse, as well as sexual abuse, at the home.
He described the home as ‘a living hell’, from which he has never really recovered.
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