UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Pupils drank washing up liquid to make themselves sick to avoid teacher who sexually abused them in front of the whole class
Primary school pupils made themselves sick with washing up liquid to try to avoid lessons with a teacher who sexually abused them in front of the whole class, a court has heard.
When one child complained about Ronald Wotton, the headmaster at the Roman Catholic school did not believe that the allegation and made the pupil apologise to the abuser.
Judge Howard Crowson, sitting at Teesside Magistrates Court, jailed the terminally-ill 73-year-old for five years.
Wotton who sometimes uses a wheelchair admitted 17 counts of indecent assault, three counts of indecency with a male and one of indecency with a child over a 12-year period from the late 1960s.
He was allowed to retire in 1980 when a new headmaster, who could not ignore the mounting allegations against the teacher, took over.
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