UNITED KINGDOM
Dewsbury Reporter
Police are investigating allegations of sexual abuse at a former seminary in Mirfield.
Several men have claimed they were abused by Catholic priests at St Peter’s Seminary in Mirfield in the 1960s and 1970s.
Some are preparing civil cases against the order which ran the school at Roe Head.
And a formal complaint by at least one person has been made to West Yorkshire Police.
Allegations of abuse by members of the Verona Fathers have been made on several websites.
One man wrote: “I was at Mirfield in the early sixties. My whole time there was a non-stop series of mental, emotional, physical and, on two occasions, sexual abuse by the priests, coupled with total neglect of all the boys, who were left to their own devices to cope with the problems produced by the abuse.”
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