UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post
A FORMER housemaster at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire has been jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing pupils.
David Lowe, 61, took advantage of boys as they slept in their dormitory beds and during singing lessons, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard.
Lowe invited the youngsters to his flat and “spanked” them when they had broken school rules. He also crept into the vulnerable pupils’ dormitory and touched them intimately while carrying out night-time checks, his trial was told.
Many of his victims studied at the £16,000-a-year choir Westminster Cathedral Choir School, while others were abused at the Benedictine monk-run Ampleforth College.
The attacks, which took place between 1978 and 1984, were carried out on boys aged eight to 13.
The court heard that some of the victims came forward after reports of Operation Yewtree, the police investigation into historic sexual abuse in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
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