Hull Daily Mail
July 13, 2010
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The Catholic Church has gone to the High Court in a bid to overturn a ruling that could force it to pay ?8 million compensation to victims of sexual abuse at an East Riding home.
More than 170 people were abused at St William's Children's Home in Market Weighton between 1960 and 1992.
A judge ruled previously that the Middlesbrough Diocese and the Catholic Child Welfare Society (CCWS) were responsible for the home.
But a four-day appeal at the High Court in London against the decision started yesterday.
The previous hearing ruled that the De La Salle Brothers – a Catholic order of lay teachers that ran the school – was not responsible.
The former principal, Brother James Carragher, was jailed in 2004 for 14 years after admitting abusing 22 boys in his care over a 20 year period.
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