BRITAIN
Times & Star
Published on 20/03/2005
A FORMER Workington priest has appeared in court charged with 15 counts of indecent assaults and five of gross indecency at a private school 32 years ago.
Father Gregory Peter Carroll, 65, taught at Ampleforth College between 1973 and 1983.
He was linked to the fee-paying school until 1987, when he moved to Workington’s Our Lady and St Michael’s Church, where he spent about 14 years as a priest.
The alleged assaults date back to his time at the college, and the alleged victims were all under 14 at the time.
The charges were brought after a 12-month police probe into Ampleforth Abbey, which is attached to an independent school run by Benedictine monks.
Posted by kshaw at March 20, 2005 06:21 AM