Suicide Shattered Ampleforth’s Silence over Sex Abuse Claims

By Andrew Norfolk
The Times
August 25, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/suicide-shattered-ampleforths-silence-over-sex-abuse-claims-qvz3gvgt6

Ampleforth, where James Glynn was a pupil. He committed suicide at the age of 35, claiming that he had been abused at the school

A sun-soaked day in late June was drawing to a close. As shadows lengthened across the valley that has been the school’s privileged home for more than 200 years, a group of young boys waited nervously outside the headmaster’s study.

One by one, each was summoned. For Paul Sheppard’s career at Ampleforth College, what they had to say proved terminal.

Their science teacher’s alleged penchant for touching them was an open secret among the children, aged 10 to 13, of Junior House. Some eventually found the courage to complain to another member of staff, who immediately informed the headmaster, Father…