Former head of children’s home from Wirral jailed for sex abuse of boys

UNITED KINGDOM
Wirral Globe

A former head of a children’s home from Prenton – who has already served 21 years in prison for sexually abusing boys – has been jailed for a further nine years.

James Carragher, of Cearns Road, was head from 1976 to 1990 of St William’s – an approved school for boys with behavioural problems in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, run by the Catholic De La Salle order.

Carragher, 75, was jailed for seven years in 1993 and a further 14 years in 2004 for offences he committed at St William’s.

On Monday, he was jailed for nine years at Leeds Crown Court by a judge who said he and co-defendant Anthony McCallen had the boys at the school “effectively trapped” and added: “It is difficult to imagine a worse case of breach of trust”.

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