LIVERPOOL (ENGLAND)
Liverpool Echo
December 1, 2017
By Josh Parry
Stephen Armstrong-Smith has bravely spoken out about his struggle to live with having been abused
A man who endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of a priest was so traumatised he turned to self-harm and extreme suicide attempts.
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.
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