UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph
16 FEBRUARY 2015
A Roman Catholic priest sexually abused vulnerable boys with the manager of a care home, a court has heard.
Father Anthony McSweeney, 68, is on trial over alleged historic sexual abuse at a children’s home in Hounslow, west London.
The charges came following an investigation into alleged abuse at Grafton Close Children’s Home.
The jury of seven men and five women at Southwark Crown Court was told that the defendant was close friends with John Stingemore, who managed the home between 1979 and 1981.
He was found dead last month aged 72.
Sarah Plaschkes QC, opening the case for the prosecution, said that Stingemore would have been in the dock alongside McSweeney if he was still alive.
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