UNITED KINGDOM
Plymouth Herald
A Plymouth teacher has appeared in court in Scotland to face dozens of charges of physical and sexual abuse of children – including dragging one child to a river and forcing his head under water.
Paul Kelly, from Plymouth, and John Farrell are accused of carrying out years of horrific sexual abuse on young boys at a school run by a controversial Catholic group.
Kelly, who was a teacher at St Boniface School in Plymouth for 27 years and retired as head of Year Nine, and Farrell appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court today over allegations of brutal sex attacks and beatings at the former St Ninian’s School in Falkland, Fife, between 1978 and 1983.
The pair face a total of 57 charges between them – including multiple accusations of having “unnatural carnal connections” with young boys at the school, sexual assaults, indecent assaults and using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards children.
Kelly faces seven charges of using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour as well as eight indecent assaults and two sexual assaults.
He is further alleged to have committed nine assaults on young boys – including dragging one boy to a river and forcing his head underwater.
Kelly is also accused of three charges of having an “unnatural carnal connection” with boys at the school by repeatedly having sex with them.
One charge alleges that he forced a boy to watch while he “sexually assaulted other pupils”.
The charge further accuses Kelly of forcing other pupils to have sex with the boy.
Farrell faces six charges of assault, nine of indecent assault and two of sexual assault.
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