BRITAIN
Yorkshire Post Today
Brian Dooks
A MONK at Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire who brought shame on the Benedictine community by sexually abusing boys in his care was jailed yesterday for four years.
Gregory Carroll, now 66, committed the offences against boys at Ampleforth College or its Junior House between 1980 and 1987.
He was suspended in 1987 and sent to work as a parish priest in Workington after admitting to the headmaster "enjoying sexual contact" with a boy. York Crown Court heard there was no evidence of wrongdoing in Cumbria.
But 12 years later, after rev-ealing it had not been an isolated incident, he was made the subject of a risk assessment and later seen by psychologist Elizabeth Mann.
She did not complete her assessment because she was not allowed to see documents held by the abbey on Carroll's history of sexual abuse.
James Goss QC, prosecuting, said its relations with Dr Mann broke down and her commission was cancelled.