Victim ‘haunted by Catholic orphanage abuse’

UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

10 February 2014

By Nic Rigby
BBC News

A former resident of a Catholic orphanage at the centre of a police inquiry has said he is still haunted by the “nightmare” of abuse inflicted by a priest and nuns.

Tom Browne, 70, originally from Cambridge, was sent to the St Francis Boys Home in Shefford, Bedfordshire, in about 1950.

Mr Browne has waived his right to anonymity to speak about the abuse.

He is the second man to allege abuse by Father Wilfred Johnson.

Fr Johnson ran the home between 1945 and 1954 and died in 1994.

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