LIVERPOOL (ENGLAND)
ECHO
December 1, 2017
ByJosh Parry
Father John Kevin Murphy abused boys as young as 11
A paedophile catholic priest who used swimming lessons and foreign camping trips as a ploy to abuse boys as young as 11 claimed he ‘couldn’t remember’ his sickening crimes.
Father John Kevin Murphy, 93, used his position of trust to groom four boys during the 60s and 70s while working as a priest at St Luke’s Parish in Whiston, and the attached St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic School.
Today Liverpool Crown Court heard how during his 12 years working in the area, Murphy, of St George’s Court in Maghull , gained the trust of several families and offered to take boys, aged between 11-16 at the time, for swimming lessons, exercise sessions and even camping trips abroad in order to abuse them.
While teaching the boys to swim, he would put his hands inside their swimming trunks, touch their genitals, and then make them shower naked.
On one occasion, he made one of his victims sit on his knee in a changing room and performed a sex act on him.
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