UNITED KINGDOM
Hull Daily Mail
THE principal of a former children’s home, who has already served 21 years for sexually abusing children, has gone on trial accused of 62 further offences against young boys.
James Carragher, 75, a former headmaster of St William’s approved school in Market Weighton, “hid behind a cloak of respectability” to abuse boys in his care, a jury was told.
He and Anthony McCallen, 69, and Michael Curran, 62, are on trial together at Leeds Crown Court, and between them are accused of almost 90 offences against 19 former pupils at the residential home.
The school, run by the Roman Catholic De La Salle religious order, was home to “troubled” boys aged between 12 and 16, who were “undoubtedly amongst the most vulnerable in society”, the court heard.
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