UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Star
A ROMAN Catholic cleric who disguised decades of sexually abusing pupils at an all-boys school behind his religious status and love of corporal punishment was jailed for nine years today.
By Jon Harris / Published 28th August 2014
The Rev Alan Morris, 63, was free to prey on youngsters at St Ambrose Catholic College, one of Britain’s top Catholic schools, over three decades despite repeated attempts by victims to stop him.
Morris, who taught chemistry and religious education, became the highly feared Head of Discipline at the 1,030 pupil school in the wealthy village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham, Cheshire, where he abused boys during break-time for his own sexual pleasure.
Calling himself “the chief policeman” of the school, Morris kept an array of implements in a schoolbag for his punishment beatings and whippings which included the tubing of a Bunsen burner, a cane and a specially adapted table tennis bat known as “the paddywhacker”.
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