UNITED KINGDOM
Bedfordshire on Sunday
Written by STEVE LOWE
ALLEGATIONS into abuse at a Catholic boys’ home took another twist this week when a former local resident says she saw a priest leaving the home with Jimmy Savile.
Jill Fagg lived in Shefford at the time the priests running St Francis Boys’ Home have been accused of sexual and physical abuse against some of the children.
Many of them are getting together to start a ‘class action’ against the Catholic Church for compensation of the abuse they say they suffered.
The police have also reopened an investigation into the allegations.
Bedfordshire on Sunday has been asking if former boys at the home would be willing to come forward to give evidence and offer support to the action. Now one former resident of Shefford, Jill Fagg, 75, has said she saw Father Johnson, who used to run the home, leave with Jimmy Savile.
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