UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A “cruel and sadistic” carer molested boys at a Catholic children’s home and terrorised them with a punishment known as The Clappers, a court has heard.
James McCann, 80, from Norfolk, is accused of violent and sexual assaults on 26 boys aged between eight and 12.
He allegedly abused the boys at St Francis children’s home in Shefford, Bedfordshire, in the 1960s and 1970s.
An Old Bailey judge has ruled he is not fit to stand trial and the jury must decide the facts alone.
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