UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A deacon convicted of sexually abusing 10 schoolboys at a Greater Manchester school has been jailed for nine years.
The Rev Alan Morris, 64, was found guilty of 19 sex assaults between 1972 and 1991 when he taught at St Ambrose RC College in Hale Barns, Altrincham.
When the offences took place the school was run by Roman Catholic religious order the Christian Brothers.
Morris, of Rivington Road, Hale, had denied all charges at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
‘Fearsome reputation’
Joanna White of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said he “abused his position of power within the school to prey on vulnerable young boys and continued to do so years after corporal punishment was abolished”.
“He utilised the ability to carry out corporal punishment to perform acts and force others into acts which were designed to humiliate his victims in order to satisfy his own sexual desires,” said Ms White.
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