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Dean Kirby
An inquiry has been launched into the handling of child sex abuse allegations at one of the country’s most prestigious independent Roman Catholic boarding schools.
The Charity Commission said the inquiry will look at charities that administer Ampleforth Abbey and Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire.
The college is already the subject of a police investigation into historical allegations of abuse.
In September, the Right Reverend Cuthbert Madden, Ampleforth College’s chairman of governors and Ampleforth Abbey’s abbot, stepped aside as he denied any wrongdoing after North Yorkshire Police confirmed it was investigating non-recent allegations of indecent assault against four pupils.
The Charity Commission announced it had opened an inquiry into Ampleforth Abbey and St Laurence Education Trust, which runs both Ampleforth College and St Martin’s Ampleforth.
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