September 24, 2005

Top school tried to cover up monk's sex abuse of pupils

BRITAIN
Irish Independent

Saturday September 24th 2005

A MONK who taught in Britain's leading Catholic boarding school was jailed yesterday, almost two decades after he first confessed to indecency with a pupil.

Instead of reporting that incident to the police, Ampleforth College suspended him and sent him to work in a parish on the other side of England.

When Gregory Carroll admitted 12 years later that he had also abused other students, the college authorities arranged for him to be seen by a psychologist.

She called in social services after the Abbott refused to hand over papers about the admissions of sexual abuse and a criminal investigation was launched.

Posted by kshaw at September 24, 2005 08:31 AM