UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Press
FIVE child sex abuse victims have launched a High Court bid for compensation over abuse at a Catholic school in East Yorkshire.
A total of 249 men have lodged claims of historical sexual abuse against the Diocese of Middlesbrough and the De La Salle Institute, which ran the St William’s children’s home in Market Weighton.
The trial, at the High Court in Leeds, involves claims from five of the claimants. If the claims are successful the pay-outs are expected to run to millions of pounds.
Earlier this year, the former head of St William’s, James Carragher, was jailed for the third time after he was found guilty of sexually abusing boys.
Carragher, 75, had already been sentenced to 21 years in prison for sexually abusing boys when he was jailed for a further nine years in January.
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