UNITED KINGDOM
Burton Mail
A 77-YEAR-OLD man from Burton has been accused of sexually abusing a pupil at a Derbyshire school “twice a week” over a four year period, a court has heard.
The victim, who is now in his 50s, said John Thompson, a former junior school teacher, turned Baptist minister, would make him undress in his office at Crich C of E Junior School and then went on to touch the boy sexually.
The victim said his experiences at the hands of Thompson ‘destroyed my life’ and that he did not come forward until 40 years after the alleged abuse as he was “ashamed and embarrassed with myself”.
Thompson, of Tutbury Road, Burton, faces charges of six counts of indecent assault and two of gross indecency with the-then pupil for offences that date back to the 1970s.
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