UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By ALEX MATTHEWS FOR MAILONLINE
The most senior figure at Britain’s leading Catholic public school is being investigated over allegations of historical sexual abuse against pupils.
Cuthbert Madden, 61, the Abbot of Ampleforth College in Yorkshire, has stepped down from his duties while the probe gets underway.
The allegations are said to relate to alleged offences committed while he was a monk and a tutor at the school in the early 1990s.
Ampleforth is the biggest of England’s 13 Benedictine Abbeys and former pupils at the College, which costs families £33,000-a-year, include Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, England Rugby Captain Lawrence Dallaglio and Hollywood star Rupert Everett.
However, despite its illustrious past the school has been subject to scandal regarding claims of historical sex abuse.
Since 1996 there has been three monks and one lay teacher convicted of such assaults, regarding 30 pupils from the mid-1960s to the 1990s.
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