UNITED KINGDOM
Burton Mail
A children’s charity has told survivors of sexual abuse that they will be “listened to” in an attempt to get them to come forward, after a former teacher who assaulting a boy more than 35 years ago was finally caught.
Raymond Peter Thompson, from Burton, was given a 16-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, when he appeared at Newport Crown Court on Friday, February 17, for the offence, which the family of the victim said has ruined his life.
Thompson had been a teacher at a primary school in Burton, and also taught a class at a Sunday school for a Baptist church in the town. He committed the offence while on a camping trip with the church in Sandown on the Isle of Wight between July 1, 1980, and August 31, 1980.
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