UNITED KINGDOM
EDP 24
Press Association
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
A man has told a court that he was sexually abused at a care home by a Roman Catholic priest who then took photographs of him.
The alleged victim, now in his 40s, was under 16 when he was at Grafton Close Children’s Home in Hounslow, west London, during the 1980s
On the second day of Father Anthony McSweeney’s trial at Southwark Crown Court, the man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told the jury how the priest performed a sex act on him and then took out a camera, before warning him not to tell anyone what had happened.
The alleged victim said: “When I called an end to it he did mention that it’s not to be broadcast, I weren’t to tell anyone.”
He said the incident took place in a flat at Grafton Close belonging to John Stingemore.
The jury of seven men and five women has been told that he abused boys during his time as the home’s manager.
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