UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 July 2012
More than 170 victims of alleged physical and sexual abuse who attended a Yorkshire children’s home are awaiting the outcome of a dispute between Catholic organisations about who is responsible for paying compensation, the supreme court has heard.
The Roman Catholic diocese of Middlesbrough is seeking to overturn a ruling that it alone must meet claims brought by those who say they were assaulted at St William’s children’s care home and school in Market Weighton, east Yorkshire.
The allegations date back as far as 1958. The former headmaster James Carragher has twice been convicted of a series of indecent assaults, buggery and taking photographs of young boys.
In 2004 he was sentenced to 14 years in prison, having already served a seven-year sentence imposed in 1993. He has since been expelled by the De La Salle order of Christian Brothers, whose members taught at the institution.
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