LIVERPOOL (ENGLAND)
Liverpool Echo
August 11, 2019
By Neil Docking and Kate McMullin
The Catholic Church paid out £35,000 to another man, who said he had been abused by three priests at St Joseph’s Catholic Seminary
A disgraced Catholic priest who sexually abused boys was not the only clergymen to have betrayed his youthful charges, it has been alleged.
Former Darlington parish priest Michael Higginbottom was jailed for 18 years for the sexual abuse of two teenage boys at St Joseph’s College in Upholland, near Skelmersdale , in the 1970s and 80s.
However shocking allegations have been uncovered suggesting that more boys at St Joseph’s seminary were preyed upon by perverted priests.
At least three Catholic priests have been accused of abusing children at the facility in West Lancashire, with several pupils having reported horrifying mistreatment at the hands of clergy who they should have been able to trust.
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