UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
By Frances Gibb
A former headmaster of a Roman Catholic junior day school was ordered to pay £43,000 damages plus interest yesterday for sexually abusing a pupil.
The headmaster, also a priest, was found to have abused the boy in separate incidents that involved removing his clothing, fondling his genitals and videoing him and other boys taking a shower.
The High Court, in London, was told that the victim, then aged 9 and 10, had tried to take his own life by tying string around a balustrade and jumping from the landing; he had, later in life, suffered psychiatric and sexual problems, leading to delinquency.