UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror
By Rachel Mountain
Father Tony McSweeney allegedly molested three youngsters at Grafton Close Children’s Home in Hounslow, west London, between 1979 and 1981.
A Catholic priest was “spotted ogling a cub scout as he showered three years before he began sexually abusing schoolboys at a childrens’ home”, a court heard today.
Father Tony McSweeney, 68, allegedly molested three youngsters at Grafton Close Children’s Home in Hounslow, west London, between 1979 and 1981.
Three years earlier, in 1976, he was reported by a 15-year-old boy to a Deputy Warden on a cubs retreat after he spotted McSweeney watching him as he washed, jurors heard.
But the boy was told not to be ‘stupid and make trouble’ and even his mother dismissed his worries because a ‘priest would not do anything like that’.
The clergyman has also collected vile child porn over ‘decades’ and has a ‘sexual interest in teenage boys’ showering, Southwark Crown Court heard.
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