UNITED KINGDOM
EADT 24
Colin Adwent crime correspondent colin.adwent@archant.co.uk
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
As Ipswich man has spoken of the brutality inflicted by a priest at the centre of a police investigation into alleged abuse at a Catholic orphanage.
Describing St Francis Boys Home, near Bedford, David Cox, of Alderman Road, said: “That place was a brutal hellhole.”
The 61-year-old left the orphanage in 1968 when aged 16.
Mr Cox and at least two other former residents have said they were physically abused by Father John Ryan, who died five years ago.
He said: “Even though John Ryan is dead, the memories are not.
“Ryan was the most brutal man I’ve ever come across in my life. He threw kids around like they were toys. We were all punch bags.
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