UNITED KINGDOM
Hartlepool Mail
Primary school pupils in County Durham 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 headteacher at the Roman Catholic school did not believe the allegation and made the pupil apologise to the abuser.
Judge Howard Crowson, sitting at Teesside Crown Court, jailed the terminally-ill 73-year-old for five years.
Wotton, who 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.
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