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	Church's Supreme Court Bid over Child Abuse Compensation Is Rejected Hull Daily Mail November 11, 2010 Church's Supreme Court bid over child abuse compensation is rejected EAST YORKS: The Catholic Church has been told it cannot appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn a decision which forces it to pay compensation to victims of child abuse at a Market Weighton care home. The victims were subjected to sickening sexual and physical abuse between 1960 and 1992 at St William's Community Home. In December 2005, the home's former principal, Brother James Carragher, was found guilty of sexually abusing 22 vulnerable boys – some as young as 12 – and sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment. He had previously served a seven-year sentence for indecent assaults, taking photographs of young boys and importing videos of children. The Court of Appeal upheld a decision that the Roman Catholic Diocese Of Middlesbrough, rather than the De La Salle Order Of Christian Brothers, a Catholic order of lay teachers that taught at the home, was responsible for compensating the victims.
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