UNITED KINGDOM
Gazette Live
A teacher and a housemaster who abused vulnerable boys in their care at a children’s home have received jail sentences totalling 46 years.
Between them Roy Allen and Roy Lovatt molested nine boys in the 1970s and 1980s while working at Thorp Arch Grange school on the outskirts of Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
Lovatt who was later ordained as a Roman Catholic priest was described by the prosecution as a predatory sex offender in his trial at Leeds Crown Court .
The 71-year-old of Queen Street, Redcar , who was a house master at the school was found guilty of four charges of indecent assault and five of serious sex assaults against two boys.
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