UNITED KINGDOM
Gazette Live
A former teacher at a children’s home has gone on trial accused of sexual abuse.
Michael Curran, from Ingleby Barwick, is accused along with two other men of abusing pupils at St William’s – an approved school for boys with behavioural problems in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire.
The residential home and school was run by the Catholic De La Salle order.
Former principal James Carragher, 75, is one of the two other men on trial at Leeds Crown Court.
He has already been jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing boys in his care has gone on trial accused of further offences.
A jury has been told that was jailed for seven years in 1993 and a further 14 years in 2004 for offences he committed.
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