UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
One of the victims of church deacon Alan Morris has recalled how the “vicious beatings” he suffered became sexual abuse from which he never recovered.
Morris, 64, has been jailed for nine years for physically and sexually abusing ten pupils at St Ambrose RC College in Hale Barns, Altrincham, between 1972 and 1991.
The former pupil, who does want to be named, said Morris “ruled with an iron hand” but described how the teacher got sexual gratification from chastising him.
The victim said he would be “taken aside” during his lunch to be beaten or whipped in “extra lessons” in a private classroom.
‘Whipped with hose’
He said Morris was not the only teacher at the boys-only school to use corporal punishment where beatings were “the norm”.
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